Records of the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway, 1904-1961.

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Records of the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway, 1904-1961.

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Records of the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway include its own extensive administrative, fiscal, and legal files, as well as those of the Bee Tree Lumber Company, the Hope Falls Timber Company, the Leftwich Timber Company, and the Tye River Timber Company. There is also considerable material concerning the operations of the Tidewater Lumber and Veneer Company in Honduras and British Honduras; the land promotion ventures of the Georgia Company, Georgia and the Great Western Land Company, Montana; and the titanium oxide and aplite industries of Nelson County, Virginia. Company officers and business associates in the correspondence files include James R. Caskie; Secretary Fordyce Cobb; Treasurer Howard Cobb; Vice-president T.A. Fry; Traffic Manager J.H. Jester; Charles F. Johnson; Superintendent Frank O. Lathrop; President John W. Powell; Morris E. Priesch of the Haines Lumber Company; and General Manager Wilmer R. Righter. The collection also contains "Sentimental Journey being a history of the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway the Bee Tree Lumber Company and the Leftwich Timber Company," by Carl M. Lathrop, 1979.

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Riverton Lime and Stone Company.

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Cobb, Howard, d. 1948,

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Southern Railway (U.S.)

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Organized in 1894 from the bankrupt Richmond and Danville Railroad Company and several other railroad companies; headquartered in Washington, D.C. From the description of Records, 1891-1972. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28410983 Formed in 1894; combined with Norfolk and Western Railway to become Norfolk Southern Corporation in 1982. From the description of Records, 1899-1950. (Atlanta History Center). WorldCat record id: 28414535 ...

Virginia Blue Ridge Railway

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Short line railroad based in Massie's Mill, Va., originally built, 1914-1916, to haul chesnut timber for the Leftwich Timber Company and the Tye River Timber Company to the Southern Railway. After the chestnut blight ended lumbering the railroad hauled freight for Southern Mineral Products Corporation which manufactured tintanium dioxide pigment, and the Riverton Lime and Stone Company and the International Mineral and Chemical Company both of which mined aplite. From the description...

Great Western Land Company.

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Georgia Company

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Incorporated in North Carolina in 1887 to acquire stocks and bonds of railroads in North Carolina and adjoining states; controlled by Richmond Terminal Company after 1888. From the description of Records, 1887-1895. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28415567 The Georgia Company was one of four companies formed in 1794 for the purpose of acquiring new land in the Georgia region. They were named in the Yazoo Act of January 7, 1795, which declared the right of the State of G...

Righter, Wilmer H., 1873-1947,

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Lathrop, Frank O.,

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Lathrop, Carl M.

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Fry, T. A,

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International Mineral and Chemical Company.

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Haines Lumber Company.

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Caskie, James R.

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Bee Tree Lumber Company

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Johnson, Charles F. (Charles Frederick)

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Hope Falls Timber Company.

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Leftwich Timber Company

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Southern Mineral Products Corporation.

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Jester, J. H.,

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Powell, John W., d. 1957,

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Cobb, Fordyce, d. 1930,

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Tye River Timber Company.

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Priesch, Morris E.,

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