Madison, a Jewel in Setting 'Neath the Hills: A Guide to the Visitor Who Loves Nature and Her Wonders with Maps and Photoengravings on the Most Famous Falls, Caves, Caverns, Cliffs, Vales and River Views Surrounding Her (Classic Reprint) by A S Chapman (Paperback / softback, 2015)
Excerpt from Madison, a Jewel in Setting 'Neath the Hills: A Guide to the Visitor Who Loves Nature and Her Wonders With Maps and Photoengravings on the Most Famous Falls, Caves, Caverns, Cliffs, Vales and River Views Surrounding Her This book is an illustrated tourist and visitors guide to Madison, her business interests, and the unsurpassed surrounding beauties, and wonder in nature: caves, cliffs, waterfalls, and vales and hills; surrounded and dotted with beautiful homes and cultivated farms, and flowers, and all that go to make life happy and man contented. The book is profusely illustrated with photagraphic scenes of Natures wonders. and is accompanied by two maps; one showing the automobile roads leading from all points in the slate to Madison. The other an enlarged map of the principal scenic portion, bordering on the Ohio River, of Jefferson County; indexed. showing the location of the principal falls, cliffs, caves, hotel sites, parks, bathing beach, and the roads leading thereto. The book is also an abbreviated index to Madison's business interests, and business houses, and the why those seeking healthful location for business or residence should come here, visit nature's beauties and scenic wonders, learn of our splendid business field and facilities and mingle with our good natured and ever welcoming population, whose hospitality is a byword even in distant lands. This book contains advertisements, as the word is understood in the business world; To name each business house or profession, firm or individual, would require a cyclopedia of vast dimensions. To abbreviate we name a few in each line of business or profession, illustrating many of their homes and business houses, as a sample of the whole; and what is said of each is by the author, and t dictated. The entire aim of this book is to show to the world what Madison is and has to offer to our visitors, both in scenic beauty and wonders, and hospitality, and as a most desirable place in which to dwell, and do business. This book has the endorsement of the Madison Commercial Club. 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 techlogy 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.