Feb. 19, 1898: The Chattanooga Daily Times, with a dateline of Johnson City, reported on a fire at Buffalo Mountain. âThe Buffalo mountains (sic) near this place have been on fire for two days and the citizens along the foot of the range have been exposed to damage by the fire raining down on them and consuming fencing and whatever else may be on the outskirts of their farms.â
Feb. 19, 1914: Readers of the Nashville Banner read of infrastructure improvements taking place in Johnson City. With a dateline from Johnson City, readers learned, âThe Trinidad Paving Company of Cleveland, O., is busy installing the plant here, preparatory to beginning work on a $50,000 contract of paving in Johnson City. The work is being done entirely at the expense of the property owners and includes a large number of the streets in the southwest (sic) addition of the city.â