File:A hand book of Virginia (1911) (14776263301).jpg

Identifier: handbookofvirgin06virg (find matches)
Title: A hand book of Virginia
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Virginia. Dept. of Agriculture and Immigration Koiner, George W. (George Wellington), 1852-1939
Subjects:
Publisher: Richmond, Everett Waddey Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
light and friable slate soil, and thebottoms are rich and productive. Lands can be brought here now much morereasonably than in some other sections of the State, where they are naturallyno better, or even as good. There are no large towns, eight-tenths of the popula-tion living in the country, so that Appomattox is strictly an agricultural county. Land which sold in 1900 at $6.00 per acre is now held with offers at $12.00 re-refused. The Bank of Appomattox, at the county seat, which showed a deposit in 1901of $16,800 reported, September, 1909, $114,000. There is also a prosperous bankat Pamplin, and a large new tobacco warehouse. Tobacco is the principal crop, and grass and hay are very profitable; $146 netfor one acre of white Burley tobacco; ninet3r-one bushels of shelled corn to theacre, and three tons of hay to the acre weighed and measured, 1909 crop. Stock,fruit and vegetables do well here. Oak, hickory, walnut chestnut, and maple timber are abundant and beingprofitably worked.
Text Appearing After Image:
93 The educational and religious facilities are ample, being furnished by a numberof good schools and prosperous churches. The principal towns are Pamplin and Appomattox, each having a populationof from 500 to 700. Pamplin is widely known on account of its manufactures ofclay pipes, many styles of which are made at the large factory here, said to be thelargest clay pipe factory in the world, from which pipes are shipped by the carloadall over the country. Appomattox, the county seat, on the Norfolk and Western railroad about twenty-five miles from Lynchburg and thirty-five from Farmville, is a prosperous newtown, with fine new courthouse, jail and offices, two live newspapers, bank, threegood hotels, ten stores and handsome residences. Lawyers, physicians, real estateagents, with local and long distance telephone connection, manufacturing mill,sawmill, a drug store, and tobacco warehouses. A handsome agricultural college has just been completed at a cost of $20,000—free tuition. Thr

Note About Images