Download or read book Kingsport City of Industry written by Brianne J. Wright and published by Images of America. This book was released on 2023-10-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kingsport is a prime example of a community born out of a vision to create a planned model city of industry and an ideal community. In the early 20th century, Kingsport was ripe with opportunity and potential. Its advantageous location on the railroad, proximity to a wealth of raw natural resources, hearty labor supply, and unmatched community spirit laid the foundation for Kingsport to become one of the leading industrial centers of the New South. This book explores many of Kingsport's diverse industries, from the Corning Glass Works that manufactured Pyrex to the Holston Ordnance Works that produced RDX (the world's most powerful explosive until the atom bomb) to Tennessee Eastman and its role in managing Clinton Engineering Works in Oak Ridge during World War II. Other local companies include General Shale, Kingsport Press, Borden Mills, Holliston Mills, Foremost Dairies, Blue Ridge Glass, PET Dairy, and Dixie Maid Bakery.
Download or read book Kingsport City of Industries Schools Churches and Homes written by Rotary Club Of Kingsport (Tenn.) and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Kingsport Tennessee written by Margaret Ripley Wolfe and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This first full-length biography of Kingsport challenges interpretations of regional history that promote the colonial and poverty models. It will interest scholars of urbanization, city planning, and industrialization as well as local history enthusiasts."
Download or read book Kingsport Tennessee written by Margaret Ripley Wolfe and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 attention to Southern Appalachia, and nurtured by the Protestant work ethic, Kingsport today reflects its heritage. From flaunting its patriotism with grandiose Fourth of July parades to being defensive about its pollution, the city exhibits values almost stereotypically those of middle-class America. But loss of vision and a decline in the quality of leadership plague contemporary Kingsport, and, like other American industrial strongholds, it is buffeted by the winds of the high-tech revolution and the changing world economy. This first full-length biography of Kingsport challenges interpretations of regional history that promote the colonial and poverty models. Margaret Ripley Wolfe brings to it the advantage of an insider's perspective. In considering the special roles of capital, labor, industry, and government over seven decades, she neither patronizes Appalachian workers nor treats developers and industrialists as villains. Her book will interest scholars of urbanization, city planning, landscape architecture, and industrialization, as well as local history enthusiasts.
Download or read book Kingsport written by Rotary Club, Kingsport, Tenn and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kingsport written by Tennessee The Rotary Club of Kingsport and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1937, this volume contains a history and current description of Kingsport, Tennessee, including brief sketches of many of the major industrial, transportation and communications companies, along with real estate and development, hotels and more. Also includes many photos.
Download or read book Kingsport written by Kingsport Rotary Club and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Kingsport: City of Industries, Schools, Churches and Homes As Robert St. John, internationally known radio commentator, stated in one of two consecutive national broadcasts made recently (after making a lecture appearance in the city), Kingsport is the most ideal combination of industry and homes he had ever seen anywhere - and the people of Kingsport aim to keep it just that! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Kingsport written by Rotary Club of Kingsport (Kingsport, Tenn.) and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kingsport written by Rotary Club of Kingsport (Kingsport, Tenn.) and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Kingsport written by Howard Long and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Downtown Kingsport written by Brianne Wright and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kingsport, the "Model City," was the first American city in the 20th century that was privately financed and professionally planned. Chartered in 1917, it was also the first city in Tennessee to adopt a city manager form of government. Kingsport's location on the Clinchfield Railroad played a significant role in the development of the city, but it was the early visionaries and leaders who embraced the city's potential and transformed it. City planner John Nolen, expanding on existing city plans, created a unique physical design and layout with areas zoned specifically for industrial, residential, commercial, and spiritual development. Downtown Kingsport, anchored by the iconic Church Circle on one end and the historic train depot on the other, was the heart of industrial and economic growth. Take a cruise down Broad Street from its early beginnings to the modern era.
Download or read book Building the Workingman s Paradise written by Margaret Crawford and published by Verso. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative and absorbing book surveys a little known chapter in the story of American urbanism—the history of communities built and owned by single companies seeking to bring their workers' homes and place of employment together on a single site. By 1930 more than two million people lived in such towns, dotted across an industrial frontier which stretched from Lowell, Massachusetts, through Torrance, California to Norris, Tennessee. Margaret Crawford focuses on the transformation of company town construction from the vernacular settlements of the late eighteenth century to the professional designs of architects and planners one hundred and fifty years later. Eschewing a static architectural approach which reads politics, history, and economics through the appearance of buildings, Crawford portrays the successive forms of company towns as the product of a dynamic process, shaped by industrial transformation, class struggle, and reformers' efforts to control and direct these forces.
Download or read book Wings Over Kingsport written by Richard H. Alvey and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Company Towns written by Vittorio Gregotti and published by Compositori. This book was released on 1997 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Company towns, i.e., towns that developed around a single major industrial enterprise like General Motors or Siemens, mark the relationship between the expansion of production and the organization of a region in an entirely new way, the aim, above all, being the perfection of more or less complex forms of social organization. In addition to providing a general overview that will identify the basis of the problem within a historical framework, from the beginning of the industrial age to the establishment of Ford's archetype assembly line, the study concentrates on certain significant cases. The research then encounters real and virtual examples ranging from entertainment cities like Disneyworld to the Internet. These phenomena impose themselves on us as new models of the relationship between business, society and region, often altering our day-to-day habits in the process.
