Someone requested this a while back and thought I'd just send it to all of you: >From the Milan Exchange Jan 3 - Dec 26, 1878 (taken from Gibson Co. TN Newspaper Extracts Vol 5 by Emily b. Walker) Come South Young Man! The Best and Cheapest Lands and the "Best Shipping Point in America." West Tennessee, embracing all of the state west of the Tennessee river, has an area of about 10,000 square miles. In 1870 Gibson county, had out of her population of 25,666, 6865 negroes. In 1870, this county had 132,669 acres of improved land, and although there were fourteen counties in the State with larger quantities, she ranked second in value of all farm productions; having $3,327,523 worth, against $4,169,342 in Shelby....Carroll county, adjoining us on the east, has 127,515 acres of improved land, worth $3,007,511, and the value of her farm products in 1870 was $1,791,796. Her population that year was 19,447, of which 4799 were negroes...The health of this county is good. Chills and fevers, which were common here in the early settling, have almost disappeared. We have some typhoid fever and pneumonia, ....As for cholera, yellow fever and other epidemics, we are free from them all, never having seen visited by any of them. ....Milan, in Gibson county, is situated at the junction of the Memphis & Louisville and Chicago, St. Louis & New Orleans and the prospective Tennessee Central railroads, ....It is on high, well drained land, remote from swamps...The first house was built in Milan in 1859; the first business in 1861. But little progress was made in building the town until the year 1866, ...From a mere way-station, it has grown to a point of very great importance; has, it is claimed, about two thousand inhabitants; is, in dimensions, one mile square; has over fifty business houses, three hotels, two livery stables, a first-class college male and female; ...Besides Milan, there are other flourishing towns in the county. Trenton and Humboldt are large; prosperous towns, and have good schools, churches and society. Dyer Station, Rutherford, Pickettville, Medina, Bradford and other villages, near us are prosperous, growing places. In Carroll county, Huntingdon and McKenzie are the largest towns, and are thriving, live places. Trezevant, McLemoresville, Atwood and Lavinia, also in Carroll, are growing towns and fine locations for settlers. We will receive men with capital to invest heartily, and do all in our power to make them feel at home.