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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 582 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRISTOL , a See also:

city of See also:Sullivan See also:county, See also:Tennessee, and See also:Washington county, See also:Virginia, U.S.A., 13o m. N.E. of See also:Knoxville, Tennessee, at an See also:altitude of about 1700 ft. Pop. (r88o) 3209; (1890) 6226; (1900) 985o (including 1981 negroes); (1910) 13,395, of whom 7148 were in Tennessee and 6247 were in Virginia. Bristol is served by the Holston Valley, the See also:Southern, the Virginia & See also:South-Western, and the See also:Norfolk & Western See also:railways, and is a railway centre of some importance. It is near the See also:great See also:mineral deposits of Virginia, Tennessee, See also:West Virginia, See also:Kentucky and See also:North Carolina; an important distributing point for See also:iron, See also:coal and See also:coke; and has tanneries and See also:lumber See also:mills, iron furnaces, See also:tobacco factories, See also:furniture factories and packing houses. It is the seat of Sullins See also:College (Methodist Episcopal, South; 1870) for See also:women, and 6f the Virginia See also:Institute for Women (Baptist, 1884), both in the See also:state of Virginia, and of a normal college for negroes, on the Tennessee See also:side of the state See also:line. The Tennessee-Virginia boundary line runs through the See also:principal See also:street, dividing the See also:place into two See also:separate corporations, the Virginia See also:part, which before 1890 (when it was chartered as a city) was known as Goodson, being administratively See also:independent of the county in which it is situated. Bristol was settled about 1835, and the See also:town of Bristol, Tennessee, was first incorporated in x856.

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