A hand book of Virginia . r of the county, has a populationof 200, several churches, mills and factories, public school, a newspaper, nearest railroad station is Richlands, on Clinch Valley railroad, distant abouttwenty-five miles. 103 BUCKINGHAM COUNTY. Buckingham county is located in the central part of the State, on south sideof James river, about half way between Richmond and Lynchburg, and distantfrom each about fifty miles. It is thirty-five miles long and twenty-four mileswide; altitude, 550 feet. It was originally a portion of Albemarle county, from which it was detachedand for
A hand book of Virginia . r of the county, has a populationof 200, several churches, mills and factories, public school, a newspaper, nearest railroad station is Richlands, on Clinch Valley railroad, distant abouttwenty-five miles. 103 BUCKINGHAM COUNTY. Buckingham county is located in the central part of the State, on south sideof James river, about half way between Richmond and Lynchburg, and distantfrom each about fifty miles. It is thirty-five miles long and twenty-four mileswide; altitude, 550 feet. It was originally a portion of Albemarle county, from which it was detachedand formed into a county in the year 1761, containing an area of 552 square miles. Surface is generally level, with large quantity of bottom land on the rivers,but rolling and hilly in some parts. Soil is a gray and black loam, with red clay subsoil, which produces abund-antly when brought to a high state of cultivation. There is a strip of black landfrom four to six miles wide extending across the western portion of the county,. VIRGINIA CORN CROP FOR 1910 WAS $35,000,000 which, under the old regime before the war, was in a high state of improvementand was considered the garden spot of Buckingham. Farm products are tobacco, corn, wheat, oats, hay, rye, buckwheat, etc. Tobac-co is the staple crop of the county, producing about five million pounds tpbacco is a dark shipping variety and is in good demand for English, Aus-trian and Italian markets. In some sections an acre of tobacco will bring to theplanter $100, and the average may be placed at from $40 to $60 per acre. Wheat in the clay lands produces abundantly, yielding as much as thirty bush-els to the acre, the average yield being from ten to fifteen bushels per , oats and hay also do well under careful and systematic cultivation. Fruits and vegetables, such as apples, peaches, pears, plums, grapes, strawberries,melons, potatoes, garden vegetables, etc., are in abundance. Stock and grazing facilities are fai
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