Education In Southwestern Virginia

Author : Amory Dwight Mayo
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483301634
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Education in Southwestern Virginia, 1890-91 (Classic Reprint) written by Amory Dwight Mayo and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Education in Southwestern Virginia, 1890-91 On every side the traveler now sees the evidence of the advancing material prosperity and power of the new Dominion of Virginia. Within the past twenty-five years two great lines of railroad have spanned the 500 miles between the sea and the Ohio Valley, while two systems of almost equal importance bind it to the South and South west, and the Baltimore and Ohio, the great highland railroad of the civil war, is still expanding its facilities. Hampton Roads is rapidly becoming the Atlantic harbor that one marvels it has not been from the beginning. At the mouth of the James River is Springing up a new city, the rival of busy Norfolk, across its broad and beautiful bay. Richmond is becoming a notable center of the manufacturing industry she resisted for years In the interest of a narrow industrial and polit ical theory. Southside Virginia is being wrought up into vast garden, orchard, and tobacco plantations, with old Villages rising into new cities. Alexandria. Is bestirring herself to revive her ancient days of commercial importance, and can hardly fail to be an important manu l acturin g annex Of the United States capital. The Potomac is already regarded as one Of the two noblest pleasure waterways in the eastern section of the Union, only rivaled by the Hudson. The quiet valley of the Shenandoah has not only surpassed its old-time agricultural fame, but is now making loud proclamation of new mining and manu factures more startling than the stories of its natural bridge, caverns, and mountain wonders in the geographies of our youth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.