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Knoxville and the Great Smokies

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  • KNOXVILLE FACTS Population, 1928 directory '. 139,800 Federal estimate city proper, 1928 105,400 Square mile area 26.4 Number of homes 20,947 Population 50 mile radius 450,000 Building permits, 1928 $7,066,437.00 Bank Debits, 1928 $438,329,935.00 Post office receipts, 1928 $648,363.49 City Tax rate 2.10 Property assessment, approximate $153,000,000 Paved streets 140 miles Sidewalk and curbing 200 miles Public schools 44 Total enrollment, Jan. 1, 1929 21,910 Number churches 174 Combined membership 50,000 Motor Vehicles, Knox County 20,700 Electric meters, 1928 22,323 Water services, 1928 24,095 Telephones, 1928 18,935 Gas connection, 1928 22,323 Newspaper circulation, daily 76,570 Hotels (17) rooms, approximate 1,500 Eighteen hole golf courses... 3 Theatres 9 Public Park areas 20 Manufacturing plants 350 Annual output textiles $19,000,000 Men's and boys' clothing $2,500,000 Annual marble production $6,000,000 Wood-working industry $5,000,000 Coal production, 50 miles radius 20,000,000 tons Wholesale and jobbing houses 135 Annual wholesale and jobbing business $100,000,000 Railroad payrolls, annually $10,000,000 Average mean temperature 58 degrees Average rainfall 48.42 Potential hydro-electric power in vicinity 1,500,000 H.P Form of government City Manager Knoxville is the home of the University of Tennessee, with an enrollment of 2,500 students in the departments here. A gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The largest heavy-weight cotton knit underwear manufacturing center in the world. Center of the third largest marble producing area in the United States. Home of the largest plant manufacturing temperature and pressure regulating equipment in the world. The center of an area that contains the largest group of native Americans in the world. The heart of the immense Southeastern hydro-electric power development area. The home of the finest municipal market in the south. The center of the Appalachian burley tobacco belt which produced 16,000,000 pounds of tobacco in 1927. Metropolis of an area rich in minerals, among them being coal, iron, copper, zinc, barytes, silica, limestone, kaolin, ochre, manganese, and clays. Additional information about Knoxville may be secured from C. F. Holland, executive vice-president Knoxville Chamber of Commerce.
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Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America

This digital collection was created to contribute to the public's understanding of the forces and ideas that led to the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934. The most vi...

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