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- A Song of Unity from Long Ago August 19, 2019
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- A Barony in the Mountains of Southwest Virginia
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Tag Archives: model city
The Model City
I grew up next to Kingsport, Tennessee. Kingsport has had several lives, the most recent being a period of industrialization, growth, expansion, and relative decline. This period was much touted at the beginning as the town became known through the … Continue reading
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Tagged annexation, Bristol, East Tennessee, economic development, Greeneville, holston river, john Nolan, Johnson City, Kingsport, model city, Norton, Southwest Virginia, Weber City
