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	Railroad Collection introduction
		In 1892, Norfolk and Western leased the Roanoke and Southern Railroad, connecting Roanoke with Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and in 1893 it leased the Lynchburg and Durham, connecting Lynchburg with Durham, North Carolina.
		The Richmond and Danville's early acquisitions included the Piedmont Railroad (1866), the North Carolina Railroad (1871), and the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad (1878).
		Railroads for which such extensive documentation exists include the Norfolk and Western and its direct predecessors, the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio, the Norfolk and Petersburg, the Southside, and the Virginia and Tennessee; the Shenandoah Valley; and the Georgia Pacific.
	spec.lib.vt.edu /railroad/rrintro.htm (1201 words)

	Railroad Guide: Special Collections, University Libraries, Virginia Tech
		Incorporated in Virginia in 1870 for the purpose of consolidating the Norfolk and Petersburg, the Southside, the Virginia and Tennessee, and the Virginia and Kentucky railroads.
		Reorganized in 1880 from the Greenville and Columbia Railroad.
		Incorporated in Virginia (1873) for the purpose of constructing a narrow gauge railroad from Danville, Virginia, to connect with the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad near Christiansburg, Virginia.
	spec.lib.vt.edu /railroad/guiderr.htm (13515 words)

	Railroads in Antebellum Richmond
		Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts wrote "Where railroads are not, civilization cannot be....Under God, the railroad and the schoolmaster are the two chief agents of human improvement." Though a Northern abolitionist, Sumner expressed a view common in the South, that railroads were a substantial element in the growth of commercialization.
		Richmond's transformation into a strong commercial center is indicated by the totals of net revenue included in the annual reports of the railroads.
		Richmond was becoming a major commercial center of the South due in large part to the growth of railroads.
	srnels.people.wm.edu /antrichf95/davis.html (2490 words)

	Chapter 5, Clement: Abbreviated Pittsylvania History - Transportation
		Whitmell P. Tunstall, of the Bellegrove plantation, was the leader in a determined movement for a railroad from Richmond to Danville.
		So great was the enthusiasm of the people for the railroad as a means for developing this section that by popular subscription branch lines were built to nearby towns, and leased to the Southern.
		The Atlantic and Danville Railroad, connecting Danville with Portsmouth and Norfolk, was built largely with British capital.
	www.victorianvilla.com /sims-mitchell/local/clement/mc/abb/05.htm (3456 words)

	Historical Context \| Mid-Lothian Mines & Rail Roads Foundation - Midlothian, Virginia
		During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the largest concentration of mines in the Richmond Coal Basin (a geological formation that extends across several counties, to the west of the James River’s fall line) was in the Midlothian area.
		The Richmond and Petersburg Railroad (chartered in 1836), the Winterpock railroad (chartered in 1840 to haul coal from southwestern Chesterfield’s mining district to the Appomattox River) and other rail lines were built to several coal pits.
		The Richmond and Danville Railroad, chartered in 1848, was in operation by 1849.
	www.midlomines.org /history.html (4225 words)

	guiderr_updated
		Constructed by the Richmond and Danville Railroad from Greensboro to Wilkesboro, North Carolina (100 miles, 1872-90).
		Incorporated in North Carolina (1862) for the purpose of connecting the Richmond and Danville Railroad with the North Carolina Railroad.
		Incorporated in North Carolina (1855) for the purpose of constructing a railroad to connect the North Carolina Railroad and the Mississippi Valley.
	southern.railfan.net /tree/guiderr_updated.htm (7434 words)

	Richmond and Danville Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The new railroad was championed by Whitmell P. Tunstall, a lawyer in Chatham, Virginia who was also a member of the Virginia General Assembly.
		The Richmond and Danville Railroad was an essential transportation link for the Confederacy throughout the war.
		When the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad was cut in 1864, the RandD's connection with the Piedmont Railroad was the only remaining connection from Richmond to the rest of the South.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richmond_and_Danville_Railroad (994 words)

	Civil War Traveler \| Virginia \| Central \| Richmond
		Richmond was capital of the Confederate States of America from May 1861 until April 1865.
		General information about visiting the Richmond metropolitan area is available at the visitor center located at the Richmond Convention Center downtown.
		Valentine Museum / Richmond History Center, 1015 E. Clay St. - A museum dedicated to the history of the city of Richmond.
	www.civilwar-va.com /virginia/va-central/richmond.html (2788 words)

	History 697 Assign 2
		Preparations were made and at midnight a train of the left the capital on the Richmond and Danville Railroad line carrying the leaders of the Confederacy and the Confederate government’s records.
		It took the presidential train 17 hours to cover the 140 miles from Richmond to Danville due to the abysmal state of the train and track, and at the end of the journey one of the cars in the train collapsed due to rotting wood, killing a number of men.
		Most historians and economists suggest that railroad development in the antebellum South lagged behind that of the north, and while this is true when track mileage is computed on the basis of physical area, the railroad mileage in southern states was roughly the same per capita as in the north.
	mason.gmu.edu /~jjohnsa/history697/Hist697assignment2.html (924 words)

	Today in History: April 2
		Richmond, meanwhile, burned, as fires set by fleeing Confederates and looters raged out of control.
		Ruins of Richmond and Danville Railroad Bridge, Richmond, Virginia, circa 1865.
		Street in the Burned District, Richmond, Virginia, 1865.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/apr02.html (380 words)

	Richmond & Danville Railroad
		By the mid-1870s, the Southern Railroad Security Company and the Pennsylvania Railroad had gained control of over 2,000 miles of railroad including the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, the Western and Atlantic, the Memphis and Charleston, the Wilmington and Weldon, and the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta.
		In 1880, the Richmond and West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company was chartered to acquire railroads which the RandD could not acquire directly due to a limitation in its charter.
		The Richmond and Danville leased the 61-mile Northeastern Railroad of Georgia in 1886.
	www.railga.com /rd.html (506 words)

	Algernon Sidney Buford: Railroad Entrepreneur, Attorney, Legislator, Civil War Veteran
		Algernon Sidney Buford is best known for his presidency of the Richmond and Danville Railroad during its massive postwar expansion into the Southern Railway system (now the Norfolk and Southern).
		Interestingly, Tunstall was creator of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, which Buford later headed, and Whittle was a major investor and promoter of the line from Lynchburg through Chatham to Danville, which was later absorbed into the system to become part of the Southern's Main Line.
		A further family connection involving Chatham's railroading lawyers is as follows: Virginia Tunstall Clay-Clopton (first cousin of Whitmell and Eliza Tunstall, and wife of Alabama Senator and Confederate diplomat Clement Claiborne Clay) documented her close friendship and several wartime visits with James Whittle's brother and sister-in-law, Col.
	www.victorianvilla.com /sims-mitchell/local/buford/as (575 words)

	Coal and Transportation in Virginia
		The Chesterfield Railroad was the first Virginia railroad and the second commercial railroad in the United States.
		The major coal fields in western Virginia were not developed until the arrival of the railroads in the 1880's.
		Modern railroads have made it possible to ship bulk coal long distances at relatively low cost - and as a result, Virginia coal has to compete with other sources based on the quality of the coal as well as geography.
	www.virginiaplaces.org /transportation/coaltransport.html (885 words)

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		But it was the ability of the Union Passenger Railway to surmount the hills of Richmond, Virginia, in 1888, that proved the practicability of the electric streetcar.
		The section of the line from the Richmond and Danville Railroad Station, later Southern Railroad Station, along West Trade St. to the Square was completed in mid-December.
		The Hornet's Nest is the symbol of Mecklenburg County.
	www.cmhpf.org /surveybytopicstreetcars.htm (3160 words)

	Map of the Richmond Danville Railroad system in Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Tennessee Alabama ...
		Map of the Richmond Danville Railroad system in Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Tennessee Alabama Mississippi Arkansas Texas.
		Map of southern United States showing drainage, coal regions, cities and towns, counties, and the railroad network in red, with names along the lines.
		This is our extensive collection of historic railroad maps representing growth and settlement throughout the United States.
	www.rainfall.com /posters/mapsrailroad/5143.htm (271 words)

	Richmond & West Point Terminal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Incorporated in Virginia in 1880, this holding company was organized in the interests of the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company for the purpose of acquiring control of railroads not directly connecting with it.
		One of the Terminal Company’s arms, the Richmond and Danville Extension Company, was incorporated in New Jersey in 1881 with the authority to construct and equip railroads throughout the nation.
		By November of 1887, the Terminal Company controlled 4,500 miles of railroad including the Georgia Pacific, the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line, the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, and the Northeastern of Georgia.
	railga.com /rwpt.html (241 words)

	Danville in the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley
		Located in south central Virginia, not far from the North Carolina border, Danville was the western terminus of the Richmond and Danville Railroad and a major Confederate supply base.
		Jefferson Davis and his government traveled to Danville as Richmond fell to the Federal army.
		He believed that the Confederacy had "entered upon a new phase of the struggle" in which the fight would not be tied to the defense of cities, but taken to the mountains in guerrilla warfare.
	www.angelfire.com /va3/valleywar/places/danville.html (265 words)

	Virginia's Retreat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In late spring 1864, Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign had ground to a bloody halt outside Petersburg and Richmond, defended by Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia.
		In June, to deny Lee the use of the South Side Railroad and the Richmond and Danville Railroad for supplies, Grant sent Gen. James H. Wilson's and Gen. August V. Kautz's cavalry divisions south of Petersburg to destroy track and rolling stock.
		On June 25, they attacked the Staunton River Bridge crossing of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, where they were decisively repulsed.
	www.varetreat.com /wk.asp (338 words)

	HOGE v. RICHMOND & DANVILLE R CO, 99 U.S. 348 (1878) -- US Supreme Court Cases from Justia & Oyez
		The Richmond and Danville Railroad Company, a stockholder in the Atlanta tnd Richmond Air Line Railway Company, filed its bill against the taxing officers of South Carolina to enjoin them from levying any State, county, or municipal taxes upon the property of the last-named company within that State.
		The only ground upon which the claimed exemption is sought to be maintained is that the Air Line Railroad Company was by its charter invested with the rights, privileges, and immunities of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad Company, and that the latter is, for the first thirty- six years of its existence, exempted from taxation.
		The bill does not aver that the charter is in express terms excepted from the provisions of sect.
	supreme.justia.com /us/99/348 (490 words)

	A-1 Auto Transport National Car Shipping Company providing car moving, vehicle shipment and satellite tracking services. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		One of the founders was Colonel Algernon S. Buford, of Chatham, Virginia, who is best known for his presidency of the Richmond and Danville Railroad during its massive postwar expansion which ended in 1894 with the formation of the Southern Railway System (now part of Norfolk Southern).
		Buford was a graduate of the University of Virginia, became a lawyer, and represented Pittsylvania County in the Virginia House of Delegates during 1853 and 1854.
		He personally (as well as through the R&D Railroad) helped in the development of Brown's Summit, which was renamed Grand Summit, then Bon Air, after the French expression for good air.
	www.a1autotransport.com /states/VA/bon_air.html (315 words)

	South Boston Historic District: Virginia Main Street Communities: A National Register of Historic Places Travel ...
		From its modest beginnings as a depot on the Richmond and Danville Railroad in 1854, South Boston, located on the Dan River, became the second largest bright leaf tobacco market in the United States by the beginning of the 20th century.
		The 1781 “Retreat of the Dan” is regarded as a turning point in the war and a prelude to the battle fought at Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina.
		The arrival of the railroad in Halifax County opened the county’s rich agricultural lands to the promise of eastern markets.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/VAmainstreet/sou.htm (606 words)

	Snapshot history
		William Byrd “discovers” Danville area while surveying dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina.
		Town charter by Virginia General Assmebly “for a town on the lands of John Barnett, near Wynn's Falls, to be called Danville.
		Danville’s first cotton mill established: Danville Manufacturing Co.
	www.wm.edu /wmcar/Danvilledig/tabledanville.htm (307 words)

	1887 Norfolk & Western Railroad Company
		Certificate number 20083, dated 7th April 1887, for 100 shares of $100 each in the preferred stock of this railroad company.
		Issued to Walter C Stokes and Co. with the original signatures of J Kimball, President and A J Hemphill, Secretary
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	www.thesharegallery.co.uk /1887_Norfolk_Western.htm (812 words)

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