Busy Town --This is a block portion of the Gleason, Tennessee business district, showing the Bank of Gleason at the Left. The town is widely know as a ball clay producing center and for large volumes of sweet potato plants shipped annually. Fifteen miles of county road intersecting Highway 22 at Gleason has been recently paved.
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Murrell Finch, an insurance man and the president of the Gleason Rotary Club, surveys strip mining progress at a large clay mine on his property near Gleason. Ball clay, is plastic type of clay that has a tendency to ball and is used in manufacturing tile, chinaware and pottery, to mention just a few markets.
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