Kingsport, Tennessee : a planned American city /

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 sta...

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Main Author: Wolfe, Margaret Ripley, 1947-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1987.
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