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The LRR was primarily a logging railroad. The Little River Lumber Company owned over 76,000 acres (31,000 ha) of prime forest land in Blount and Sevier counties. By the time Little River Lumber Company completed operations in 1939, it had harvested two billion board feet (4,700,000 m³) of lumber from the Little River watershed.
The Tennessee Central Railway was founded in 1884 as the Nashville and Knoxville Railroad by Alexander S. Crawford. It was an attempt to open up a rail route from the coal and minerals of East Tennessee to the markets of the midstate , a service which many businessmen felt was not being adequately provided by the existing railroad companies.
The line connected with the Southern Railway at Knoxville. [2] In July 1921, the bank foreclosed on the railroad and later sold it for $50,000 to L.C. Gunter on November 1, 1921. The line was then re-organized as the Knoxville & Carolina Railroad Company. The railroad was sold again at auction for $50,000 on May 1, 1926, but since the new owner ...
Lumber’s price drop has been particularly dramatic in just the last 90 days in the futures market, with contract prices for July falling 28% to $466 per thousand board feet (futures prices are ...
The railroad's impact on Knoxville's development was swift. The city's population more than doubled from just over 2,000 in 1850 to over 4,000 in 1860. [6] After the war, the city's wholesaling sector expanded rapidly. By the early 1870s, the Knoxville wholesaling firm, Cowan, McClung and Company, was Tennessee's most profitable company. [7]
Denark has led construction on the downtown Knoxville baseball stadium, which has jumped in price from $80.1 million to more than $114 million, in part because of rising construction and material ...
Knoxville and Augusta Railroad: SOU: 1878 1890 East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway: Knoxville Belt Railroad: SOU: 1887 1898 Southern Railway: Knoxville and Bristol Railway: SOU: 1898 1903 Southern Railway: Knoxville and Carolina Railroad: 1921 1926 Smoky Mountain Railroad: Knoxville and Charleston Railroad: SOU: 1852 1873 Knoxville and ...
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