Virginia and North Carolina Construction Company Record Book (#5030-z) 1888-1896

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Virginia and North Carolina Construction Company Record Book (#5030-z), 1888-1896

Virginia and North Carolina Construction Company Record Book (#5030-z) 1888-1896

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The Virginia and North Carolina Construction Company was formed in February 1888 by a group of businessmen from Roanoke, Va., Martinsville, Va., and Winston-Salem, N.C., including Richard Joshua Reynolds, a tobacco grower and wholesaler, and Colonel Francis Henry Fries, whose family controlled large textile interests. The board of directors also included Henry Theodore Bahnson, a physician from Winston-Salem, N.C. The company was formed to construct a railway line between Winston-Salem, N.C., and Roanoke, Va., for the Roanoke and Southern Railway Company, after an earlier contractor had defaulted on the project. The record book of the Virginia and North Carolina Construction Company contains documentation, 1888-1896, of the formation of the company and its by-laws, minutes of meetings of the board of directors, and other information. The minutes discuss the construction of a railroad line between Winston-Salem, N.C., and Martinsville, Va.; the extension of that line to Roanoke, Va.; the acquisition of concessions allowing the Roanoke and Southern Railway Company to make use of the lines of other local railroads; and other matters pertaining to the relationship between the Virginia and North Carolina Construction Company and the Roanoke and Southern Railway Company. Minutes also discuss day-to-day matters of railroad construction, such as compensation for injured workers and the employment of convict labor.

1 volume

eng,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection