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Knoxville and the Great Smokies

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  • ■J A PICTURE OF KNOX LOCATION—Knoxville is in Knox County, on the banks of the Tennessee river, in the eastern section of Tennessee; approximately half-way between the Mississippi river and the Atlantic Coast as well as equi-distant from the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes. POPULATION—Directory census for 1928 is 139,800; directory census for 1927 was 134,688; federal census for 1920 was 77,818. CLIMATE—Average annual temperature is 58 degrees; average temperatures for the four summer months range between 70.2 degrees and 76.9 degrees, while the averages for the four winter months are between 38.4 degrees and 47.6 degrees. Annual rainfall is 48.28 inches. AREA—Greater Knoxville includes 26.4 square miles; retail trade area includes practically all of the territory within 50 miles of Knoxville; wholesale area embraces all of East Tennessee and much of the South. RAILROADS—Served by two trunk line railroads, the Southern and L. & N., which have lines radiating in nine different directions, making contact with all large markets. The John Sevier yards and the Coster Shops of the Southern Railway are here. HIGHWAYS—Knoxville is on the Dixie and the Lee Highways; 4% hours driving time to Chattanooga, 6 hours to Nashville; 8 hours to Atlanta; 5 hours to Asheville, and 18 hours to Washington, D. C.; the 100-mile Scenic Loop runs from Knoxville into the Great Smoky Mountains. SCHOOLS'—Knoxville has 44 public schools, with enrollment of 22,000; sum of $2,250,000 just spent for new buildings; University of Tennessee, with 2,500 students, is here; Tennessee School for the Deaf; for negroes, there is Knoxville College. CHURCHES—Knoxville has 174 churches, this number including 46 for negroes; combined membership of white churches r
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