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THO B BLACKLEY
Taxation, in com- parison with that of other cities, is very ·12/ liglit, in view of the ad- vantages it affords of Residence of G.G.GOOCH. well-paved and lighted streets, abundant water supply, efficient police, thorough fire organization and alarm system. The city has one of the handsomest opera houses in the country, the season of which runs from the first of September to April. It is efficiently managed, and a high class of operatic and histri- onic talent is to be witnessed on its boards.
By reason of its advantageous location Staunton was years ago selected by the legislature as one of the three points in the 59
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State for the sessions of the Supreme Court of Appeals. The Circuit and County Courts of Augusta county, and the Court of Hustings for Staunton, also meet regularly in the Court house, built on the site where Beverley's Court house stood in colonial days.
Conspicuous features of the place are the handsome and at- tractive depots of the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Chesapeake and Ohio railroads, both of which are reached from all parts of the city by street car. At the latter more passengers are said to embark and disembark than at any other point on the line except Richmond. Each of these roads, in addition to its freight service, gives a fine passenger and mail service; and one of the most notable and fastest trains on the continent is the Chesapeake and Ohio's "Fast Flying Virginian," with dining cars and vestibule sleepers lit by electricity, running from Cincinnati to New York in twenty-six hours.
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A social club. the "Beverley," has recently been or- ganized in Staun- ton, with a member- ship of from seven- ty five to a hundred of the most promi- nent profes- sional and business men RESIDENCE OF HON. ALEX. H. STUART. of the place, and gives promise of affording needed relaxation to its members and of offering a pleasant hospitality to strangers.
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Among the objects of interest in and about the city not yet mentioned are the Old Red Mill, on Middle river, a most pictur- esque and quaint structure of great antiquity, and yet another mill, within the city limits, which is said to be the oldest in existence in the Valley of Virginia. Near the last named structure stood, until its destruction in late years, an odd looking stone building of one story, which was known as the Hessian House, and like the house at Spring Farm, before spoken of, was said to have been built by the prisoners captured at Trenton.
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During the civil war Staunton was the base of supplies for the Confederate arm- ies, second in im- portance only to Richmond. Her best energies for many years, both before and after the war, were de- voted to a career of commercial ac- tivity. Situated DESIDENCE OF DR. NEWTON WAYT. in the midst of a magnificent farming and grazing country, she afforded and continues to afford a market for the wheat, corn and other farm products, and for the cattle, horses and sheep of her graz- "STEEP HILL," RESIDENCE OF COL. JOHN L. PEYTON. ing back-country. In return, she has for many years been and still is the depot of supplies for the farmers and retail merchants of the Shenandoah Valley and of West Virginia's ad-
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jacent counties. While this commercial activity is annually increasing, Staunton has only of late years turned her at- tention to manufactures, and among lier factories and plants can count to-day
A Bark Extract Mill,
A Foundry and Machine Shop,
A Plaster Mill,
A Shoe Factory,
A Carriage Factory,
Two Fertilizer Factories,
A Furniture Factory,
A Wagon Factory,
A Steam Corn Mill,
A Sash, Door and Blind Factory,
Six Cigar Factories,
A Patent Medicine Manufactory,
Two Brick Works,
A Mineral Water Manufactory,
A Barrel Factory,
Two Marble and Granite Works.
An Ice Factory.
A Mattress Factory, Two Steam Roller Flour and Grist Mills, A Gas Works,
A Cannery,
Three Planing Mills.
An Upholstery and Curtain- pole Factory,
A Book Bindery, A Factory for building Portable Houses,
A Second Wagon Factory, just contracted for, building covering ten acres of ground.
Some of these plants employ as many as two hundred men, and several of them are large and important factories. The three last named, which together will employ some 500 skilled workmen, have been brought to Staunton by tlie De- velopment Company. These and others not enumerated are, however, only a small portion of what she aspires to. Within recent years the Valley of Virginia has become the scene of an industrial development unsurpassed, perhaps, in the his- tory of any country. Its magnificent resources of raw material, climate, cheap labor, fertility of soil, proximity to the sea- board and to markets, and its railroad facilities, have been heralded to the world; and out of a horn of plenty a golden stream of wealth has sought its borders for investment.
THE OLD AST MILL, THE OLDEST MILL IN AUGUSTA CO.
Iron furnaces, rolling mills, steel plants, and factories of every kind and description have been erected or are in
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process of construction throughout its limits ; and the dicta of the scientist and of the practical man of affairs are alike pro- phetic of the destined achievements in the industrial and me- chanic arts. In the centre of all this business activity, herself the mainspring, through the energy, the tact, the capacity and the wealth of her citizens, stands Staunton, girt about by its new industrial towns which she has largely inspired and fos- tered. They are in their infancy, though making giant strides in advancement. She, on the other hand, is a city of many
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years' growth, imbued, indeed, with all the energy and aspirations of this latter day development, but none the less safe, conservative and certain. In them, the new- comer must necessarily "rough it" for years to come ; SHERWOOD, PROPERTY SHERWOOD LAND COMPANY, STAUNTON, VA. within her domain the humblest artisan and the wealth- iest capitalist may alike find contentment in the possession of every advantage that he would have elsewhere, and at the same time see himself surrounded by the comforts and conveniences that he left at home.
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To broaden the scope of her; great possibilities and to lend energy and effort to her onward progress, there are to- day in Staunton a number of organizations composed of her ablest, wealthiest and most successful business men, backed by the energy, experience and the money of Northern and Western capitalists, created not for "booming" purposes, but for solid and substantial improvement, whose objects are to attract industrial plants, to proclaim their city's manifold advantages, to develop her material resources, and to make
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of her in the near future another Pittsburg in the great county of Augusta.
The chief of these organizations is the Staunton De- velopment Company, whose president and chief executive officer is M. Erskine Miller, a gentleman known through- WITZ & HOLT PROCESS ROLLER FLOUR MILL. out Virginia as an eminently practical and successful man of affairs, whose name is connected with nearly every move- ment of moment in Staunton and its vicinity, whose knowledge of Virginia's resources is extensive and varied, and who
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for years has been practically interested in some of the most important mineral developments in this and the adjoining State of West Virginia-notably in connection with the min- ing and marketing of the famous New River red ash coal and coke, the several mines illustrated in this volume having been opened and developed by him, the product from which is now being shipped from Maine to Mexico and used in the smelting of all kinds of metals. The Russian fleet was coaled from the product of the Fire Creek Mines during the visit of the Grand Duke, some years ago.
Situated at the crossing of two great systems of railroad, one of which is an east and west overland route, reaching practically from the Atlantic to the Pa- cific ocean, the other of which is a north- east and southwest route, extending prac- tically from Nova Scotia to Mexico; within twelve miles of yet another rail- road, traversing the great Valley from northeast to southwest; with two of the OLD MILL ON LEWIS CREEK, IN STAUNTON, NEARLY ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD. greatest dry-docks in the world within two hundred miles by rail, at Newport News and Norfolk; within equally easy reach of several lines of ocean steamers; with mountains of iron east and west and north and south, in distances ranging from ten to forty miles ; with access by three competing roads to the coking coal of Con-
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nellsville, Pocahontas and New river; with limestone and manganese, and marble and kaolin, and fire clays and glass sand, and numberless other valuable minerals within easy grasp; located in an area of country which, for its wealth of hardwood forest trees, ranging from cedar, walnuut and cherry to pine and oak, has been pronounced to be inferior to none in America; surrounded by an exceedingly fertile country in the highest state of cultivation; blessed with a healthful and propitious climate; adorned with a surrounding scenery that for natural beauty is unexcelled in the Old World or the new; with every advantage that a cultivated, refined and religious society and an efficient municipal gov- ernment can afford, Staunton may, without boasting, challenge to-day the attention of the world.
When her first settlers in colonial days built their little fort and erected their stockaded shanties where the Indian trails crossed each other, they doubtless had slight forethought of what awaited the city they were founding; and even so late as thirty years ago her denizens who saw the tramp of serried armies and heard the sound of martial fife and drum, up and down the turnpikes leading into her limits, dreamed, perhaps, rather of days when the torch might destroy the little village, than of those when, as the regal "Queen City of the Valley," Staunton's forge-fires of progress should light the night like day in the era of her industrial prosperity.
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