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Loading... Kingsport Tennessee A Planned American Cityby Margaret Ripley Wolfe
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Kingsport, Tennessee, was the first thoroughly diversified, professionally planned, and privately financed city in twentieth-century America. The advent of this so-called model city, a glittering new industrial jewel in the green mountains, offered area residents an alternative to rural life and staid small-town existence as the new century dawned. Neither an Appalachian hamlet nor a company town, Kingsport developed as a self-proclaimed ""All-American City.""Produced by the marriage of New South philosophy and Progressivism, born of a passing historical moment when capitalists turned their at No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)976.8History and Geography North America South Central U.S. TennesseeLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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