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Brock Collection: Virginia railroads collection, 1828-1894.

Title: Brock Collection: Virginia railroads collection, 1828-1894.

Chiefly correspondence of the companies' officers and employees, with miscellaneous documents.

ArchivalResource: Approx. 2000 pieces.13 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122383340 View

Fontaine, Edmund, 1801-1869. Edmund Fontaine Papers [manuscript], 1840- [1867-77].

Title: Edmund Fontaine Papers [manuscript], 1840- [1867-77].

The collection centers around the Virginia Central Railroad Company of which Fontaine was President. It contains correspondence, financial papers, and assorted legal documents, many of which concern the railroad's eventual encorporation as the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company.

ArchivalResource: 82 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647975404 View

Orange and Alexandria Railroad Company. [Virginia railroad and transportation pamphlets].

Title: [Virginia railroad and transportation pamphlets]. 1850-1946.

ArchivalResource: 6 v. ; 23-24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173264967 View

Virginia. Board of Public Works. Natural Bridge Turnpike Company records, 1836-1843.

Title: Natural Bridge Turnpike Company records, 1836-1843.

These records contain letters sent, field notes (1836-1837), 5 vols., reports, lists of stockholders, and certificates of subscriptions.

ArchivalResource: 1 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/286978551 View

Virginia. Office of the Second Auditor. Covington and Ohio Railroad : journal disbursements, from the Office of the Second Auditor, 1853-1861.

Title: Covington and Ohio Railroad : journal disbursements, from the Office of the Second Auditor, 1853-1861.

These records are part of Office of the Second Auditor. Internal Improvement Fund: Railroads. These records contain a chronological narrative listing of disbursements for the construction of the railroad for the period between September 30, 1853 and September 30, 1861.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/428437984 View

Virginia. Office of the Second Auditor. Covington and Ohio Railroad : ledger disbursements, from the Office of the Second Auditor, 1853-1861.

Title: Covington and Ohio Railroad : ledger disbursements, from the Office of the Second Auditor, 1853-1861.

These records are part of Office of the Second Auditor. Internal Improvement Fund: Railroads. These records contain accounts by railroad section of disbursements made to the Board of Public Works.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/428438354 View

Virginia. Board of Public Works. Covington and Ohio Railroad Company records, 1850-1879.

Title: Covington and Ohio Railroad Company records, 1850-1879.

Contains letters sent to the board, reports, proposals for construction, powers of attorney, security bonds, receipts, vouchers and accounts, estimates of construction expenses, disbursements ledger listing payments to contractors.

ArchivalResource: 1.77 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261340244 View

C[ovington] and O[hio] railroad daybook reused as scrapbook [manuscript], 1859, undated.

Title: C[ovington] and O[hio] railroad daybook reused as scrapbook [manuscript], 1859, undated.

The daybook, for June and July, 1859, contains accounts for workers at "Cement Mill," possibly a camp for building crews. It gives entries for payments, expenses, including coal and "black powder," boarding house rents and general store type purchases. The volume was reused as a scrapbook and most of the pages have been pasted over with with a variety of clippings, chiefly sentimental in content. The only personally identifable items are a Baptist Sunday School certificate of merit to Eva M. Busick from R. J. Steers and a New Years greeting signed by Busick.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/277643810 View

Virginia. Board of Public Works. Virginia Central Railroad Company records, 1835-1870.

Title: Virginia Central Railroad Company records, 1835-1870.

Contains letters sent to the board, field notes, maps, reports, lists of stockholders, certificates of stock subscriptions, contracts, and petitions.

ArchivalResource: 5 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/262833638 View