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From
1900 until 1910 Johnson City experienced its second
major growth cycle. The completion of the National Soldiers Home in October
1903, led the recovery from the "railroad depression" of the
1890s. George L. Carter, the "Empire Builder of the Appalachians"
also moved his headquarters to Johnson City in 1906 to develop the new
Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio (Clinchfield) Railway. The combined talents,
energies, and resources of Walter P. Brownlow, the most powerful Congressman
in the South whose brainchild was the huge federally funded Soldiers Home,
with George Carter, the great railway builder, gave Johnson City momentum
for another prosperous decade. A huge economic boost was also received when the State of Tennessee chose Johnson City as a site for one of 3 "Normal Schools" established for the purpose of teacher training. The foundation for Johnson City's current 21st Century medical/educational economic base was initiated 100 years earlier. |
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