(from the archived RCHC Web site)

From: The Chattanooga Daily Times, Saturday, 5 Nov 1881.

Glen Alice is 65 miles from Chattanooga, on the Cincinnati Southern Railway.  We have a station, a depot agent, but no depot, a postoffice by name Robbsville, a store successfully run by Mrs. Thompson, wife of A. P. Thompson, a commissary, and some goods sold on the sly.  We have ore mines and ship four cars of iron per day.  The mines are operated by the Robbs Bros.  We ship tanbark and walnut logs; in fact we are a growing little place.  In addition to the above named enterprises we have a blacksmith shop on Water street.