Now because of this it allowed Corinth to produce more things within the town. Every business wanted to succeed would be being within Corinth’s depot for example, ‘The Corinth machine Company, organized in 1907 gained worldwide recognition for its sawmills. In 1945 the Berry Motor Company, which made hydraulic motors, opened and was later sold to Tyrone Industries.’ The Crossroads became so famous that President William McKinley, 1901, did a Transcontinental Trip to greet thousands at the stations. Another President who used the Crossroads to travel was President Roosevelt now he might have greeted everyone at the platform, but that was not his only reason for coming he was making his way to his Tennessee Valley with his political party on business. This helped the Crossroads get even more famous giving it public attention from all of the …show more content…
The Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center and the Shiloh National Battlefield helped attract tourists which helped the economy. In source T it says that ‘It is estimated each cultural/heritage traveler spends an average of $944 per trip and according to source U in 2004 the local economy in Corinth would be busted up to $11,913,280 and Shiloh up to $63,703,952 just from the people who visited the attractions and in 2012 it was $20,631,120 in Corinth and $66,744,576 in Shiloh. When you think about it this money is just from the tourist so it is what is being taken up from the tourists attractions plus just their local economy making them necessarily richer because of the Civil War and Crossroads. Another great economy source is the trains that go by through Corinth like Kansas City Southern, Redmont, and Norfolk Southern bring in about an estimated billion dollars annually. Some industries still use the railroad services in Corinth such as listed in source N ‘Mississippi Polymer, Timber Products, Caterpillar, Kingsford, and Kimberly Clark transport manufactured products from Corinth throughout the United States by train. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of product is disturbed from Corinth’s industries by the way of rail services.’ Kansas City Southern has two trains traveling throughout Corinth with goods daily, these goods contain timber, wood chips, and paper. Norfolk Southern