The New England Company, Fourteen Miles from Chattanooga. Extensive Coal and Iron Properties in Dade County, Geogia. New England City the Center of the Great Mineral Quadrilateral Formed by Nashville, Knoxville, Atlanta and Birmingham [with extra map and broadsides bound in:] Map of New England City, Dade County, Ga. New England Company Antique Maps

New England Company / 1890 / The New England Company, Fourteen Miles from Chattanooga. Extensive Coal and Iron Properties in Dade County, Geogia. New England City the Center of the Great Mineral Quadrilateral Formed by Nashville, Knoxville, Atlanta and Birmingham [with extra map and broadsides bound in:] Map of New England City, Dade County, Ga. (Box 2, 117416) Original pictorial card wrappers, cloth reinforced spine. A bit of chipping along fore-edge margin of front cover. 48,[2] pages. Illustrated. 2 folding leaves (list of stockholders and "Sale of City Lots" announcement) and 2 folding maps (1 color). Old institutional ink stamp on page 5. Else very good. Rare Prospectus and Town Plan for New England City, in Dade County, Georgia This is a rare and fascinating pamphlet, combining an elaborate town plan, maps and a birdseye view with an enthusiastic promotional tract for the future town of New England, Georgia and a broadside list of stockholders as of March 25, 1890. The present example incorporates two broadside-like folding sheets, which are apparently not present in other examples: Broadside advertising the sale by auction of city lots on April 12. Dated Boston, March 25, 1890. Broadside list of Stockholders of the New England Company to date, March 25, 1890. The first of the two folding maps also appears to be an extra map not found in other examples: Map of New England City, Dade County. R. M. Williams, C. E. Boston: Geo. H. Walker & Co., Photo-Lith. With purple stamped advertisement announcing "Pullman Excursion Train leaving Boston April 12th, 9 A.M.": "First Grand Sale of City Lots for an Apri 15, 1890 sale." Map of the New England Co's Extensive Coal & Iron Properties in Dade County Georgia and Map Showing its Relations to the Important Cities & Railroads. While elaborate and persuasive, the town ultimately failed. New England City is one of many speculative boom towns that arose in the South during the industrial expansion of the 1880s and 1890s. Like Fort Payne, Harriman, and Cardiff, it was heavily promoted as a Northern-financed industrial colony but collapsed under the weight of overextension, poor management, and unrealistic expectations. Today, New England, Georgia, remains a small rural community its ambitious name the only surviving reminder of a failed vision to transplant New England industry into the Southern hills. New England City, Georgia A Failed Northern Industrial Colony in the New South New England City, located in Dade County, Georgia, about fourteen miles south of Chattanooga, Tennessee, was founded in 1889 as part of a post Civil War effort by Northern investors to industrialize the South. The settlement, now known simply as New England, was conceived as the future industrial capital of the New South, but it never advanced beyond the planning stage. The town s origins trace to George J. Hall of Stevenson, Alabama, who in early 1889 secured an option on roughly 17,000 acres of coal and iron lands in northwest Georgia. His holdings covered part of the mineral-rich formations stretching along Lookout Valley between Chattanooga and Birmingham. Hall sought investors to develop the property and quickly attracted Northern backers during a period of intense Southern land speculation. The property was organized under the New England Land, Coal, Iron and Manufacturing Company, later shortened to the New England Company. The enterprise was promoted by a number of prominent New England figures, including Roswell Farnham, former governor of Vermont; George M. Glazier, president of the Saranac Glove Company of Littleton, New Hampshire; and Frank D. Currier of Canaan, New Hampshire, a former state senator. Its capitalization was set at $5 million, with shares.