A hand book of Virginia . nal advantages consist of Farnham Academy and numer-ous public schools. Telephone service and mail facilities ample, and public roadskept in good repair. This county shows considerable progress, and its peopleare prosperous and contented. There is much to recommend it to home-seekersin its mild climate, fertile soil—easy of cultivation—cheap and abundant livingand convenient access to market. 198 Population, census of 1910, 7,415. Warsaw, the county seat, is an inland country village, situated near the centerof the county, six miles from the river, and contains a popu
A hand book of Virginia . nal advantages consist of Farnham Academy and numer-ous public schools. Telephone service and mail facilities ample, and public roadskept in good repair. This county shows considerable progress, and its peopleare prosperous and contented. There is much to recommend it to home-seekersin its mild climate, fertile soil—easy of cultivation—cheap and abundant livingand convenient access to market. 198 Population, census of 1910, 7,415. Warsaw, the county seat, is an inland country village, situated near the centerof the county, six miles from the river, and contains a population of about 150,one public school, newspaper, fraternal order, and several churches. ROANOKE COUNTY. This county, formed from Botetourt in 1838, is situated west of the Blue Ridgemountains in the famous Roanoke valley, 175 miles almost due west from is twenty miles long and about fifteen miles wide, and contains an area of 297square miles. Altitude at Salem, 1,006 feet. The surface is undulating, being. VIRGINIA APPLES ON EXHIBITION. divided into valleys and mountains, the latter principally on its boundries. Soilalluvial, clay loam and limestone, very fertile, especially the valleys. This is a splendid agricultural county, producing large crops of all the stapleproducts—wheat, corn, oats, rye, hay, etc. This county has, in recent years,made great progress in fruit culture, all varieties of which known to this climatedo well; such as apples, pears, peaches, plums, cherries, apricots, grapes and thesmaller fruits. Vegetables also are grown to great extent and perfection, which,together with peaches, berries, etc., are put up in large quantities by the variouscanning establishments located in the county, and Botetourt county, apple culture especially has created much interest in the county, and it iscoming to be one of the foremost apple-growing counties in the State, containingsome of the largest orchards in the United States. Large shipments o
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