A hand book of Virginia . the line of the Norfolk and Westernrailroad 280 miles southwest from Richmond. Its elevation is 2,360 feet abovethe sea level, affording picturesque scenery, healthful and bracing climate, pleas-ant days and cool nights, fine alum and chalybeate water, excellent society, well-kept hotels and boarding houses, handsome streets and residences, constitutingan eligible summer resort of great popularity. Churches are numerous and hand-some, and its educational advantages are of a high order. Besides colleges andwell-regulated public schools, there are private boarding schoo
A hand book of Virginia . the line of the Norfolk and Westernrailroad 280 miles southwest from Richmond. Its elevation is 2,360 feet abovethe sea level, affording picturesque scenery, healthful and bracing climate, pleas-ant days and cool nights, fine alum and chalybeate water, excellent society, well-kept hotels and boarding houses, handsome streets and residences, constitutingan eligible summer resort of great popularity. Churches are numerous and hand-some, and its educational advantages are of a high order. Besides colleges andwell-regulated public schools, there are private boarding schools for young has also several newspapers, two banks, fraternal orders, water works, electriclights and macadamized streets. In addition to several flourishing manufactoriesand machine shops, there are stores in every department of business. A new court-house, costing about $50,000 and one of the finest in the State, has recently beenerected. The Supreme Court of Appeals of the State holds a session here annually. 287 during the months of June and July. Other towns, besides Rural Retreat, areIvanhoe, Max Meadows, Fosters Fall and Austinville. These are all thrivingmanufacturing or business places, and of considerable population and importance. YORK COUNTY. This county was one of the original shires into which Virginia was divided in1634. It was first known as Charles county, but changed to York in 1642. Itlies fifty miles south by east of Richmond. It is thirty miles long with a meanbreadth of five miles, and contains an area of 124 square miles, one-half of whichis in cultivation. Lands have advanced in price in the past ten years about fort)7per cent., and near Yorktown about sixty per cent. The surface is level, the soil varying from a light loam in the south to clay inthe north, and generally of a good quality. Farm products are corn, wheat, oats, potatoes, etc. Considerable fruit of thevarious varieties is grown, and melons in great abundance. The York and otherst
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