South Western Turnpike Company records [manuscript] 1846-1853.

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South Western Turnpike Company records [manuscript] 1846-1853.

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Correspondence and reports of various engineers and contractors, landowners, and officials. Subjects include specifications for bridges and toll houses, construction estimates and actual costs, contractor and labor problems, and the location of the road. Correspondents include Thomas H. DeWitt, company clerk, W. R. Drinkard, secretary of the Virginia Board of Public Works, William A. Jones, a contractor from Marion, Smyth Co., Va., James H. Piper and Louis M. Prevost, company engineers, and Charles B. Shaw, company engineer and superintendent.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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South Western Turnpike Company.

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Company chartered in 1846 by the state of Virginia to construct a macadam road from Salem, Va., to Wytheville, Va., to the Tennessee State line. Work was completed to Wytheville by 1848 and continued on to Seven Mile Ford in Smyth County before work ceased due to a number of political and economic factors including the coming of railroads. From the description of South Western Turnpike Company records [manuscript] 1846-1853. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647952150 ...

Drinkard, Wm. R. (William R.)

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