Statistical gazetteer of the state of Virginia, embracing important topographical and historical information from recent and original sources, together with the results of the last census population, in most cases, to 1854 . Indian corn, wheat, oats, grass, and gin-seng are the staples. In 1850 this county produced 134,040bushels of corn; 3,215 of wheat; 19,185 of oats, and 33,996pounds of butter. There were 2 saw mills, and 1 coal-miningestablishment. It contained 6 churches, and 171 pupils attend-ing public schools. Boone county was formed out of portionsof Logan and Kanawha counties, and na
Statistical gazetteer of the state of Virginia, embracing important topographical and historical information from recent and original sources, together with the results of the last census population, in most cases, to 1854 . Indian corn, wheat, oats, grass, and gin-seng are the staples. In 1850 this county produced 134,040bushels of corn; 3,215 of wheat; 19,185 of oats, and 33,996pounds of butter. There were 2 saw mills, and 1 coal-miningestablishment. It contained 6 churches, and 171 pupils attend-ing public schools. Boone county was formed out of portionsof Logan and Kanawha counties, and named in honor of DanielBoone, the renowned pioneer of the West. Capital, BooneCourt-House. Population, 3,237, of whom 3,054 were free, and183 slaves. BooNE CouRT-HousE, a small post-village, capital of Boonecounty, Virginia, on the Little Coal river, 245 miles in a direct 182 PETERSBURG BUSINESS DIRECTORY. HALSEY, TUPMAN & CO. IiATE B. F. HALSEY & Co. MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN FUKNISHING- GOODS, East side of Sycamore Street, R. W. HAREIS WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN (M Walking Canes, &c. &c. W. AUGUSTUS MUIR. SAMUEL STEVENS. MUIR &STEVENS, IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN CHINA, EARTHENWARE Al G ij. Pier, Mantle, and Toilet Looking Glasses,Cornells Solar and Lard Lamps, SHOWER BATHS & WATER COOLERS, nifsiimdl(0)ll©§s) (D§isil(B]r§s) & WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, Corner of Sycamore and Bollingbrook Streets,I^ETERSBXJUa. 5:^ Particular attention paid to Packing. BO GAZETTEER OF VIRGINIA. 183 line W. from Richmond. The surrounding country is verythinly settled. Boons Mills, a post-office of Franklin county, Virginia, 184miles W. by S. from Richmond. BooTHSViLLE, a village of Marion county, Virginia, with about150 inhabitants. Bootons Tan-Yard, a post-office of Madison county, Vir-ginia. Boston, a post-office of Culpepper county, Virginia. Botetourt, a county in the S. W. central part of Virginia,has an area of 550 square miles. It is intersected by Jamesriver, and also drained by Craig
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