Sketch book of Lynchburg, VaIts people and its trade .. . om in abundance, and there is still vast unused waterpower on this and the level above the City, or, if steam is preferred asa motive power, coal is now reduced to a figure which makes it avail-able, and by circling the town with a railway, switching off from the ITS PEOPLE AND ITS TRADE. 145 Midland track, near Karn (S: llicksons brick yard, and runningtoward the Dirt Bridge or Fair Grounds, and possibly connecting withthe Norfolk & Western road, very ample accommodations can beprovided for any new enterprise at very moderate cost. Sit
Sketch book of Lynchburg, VaIts people and its trade .. . om in abundance, and there is still vast unused waterpower on this and the level above the City, or, if steam is preferred asa motive power, coal is now reduced to a figure which makes it avail-able, and by circling the town with a railway, switching off from the ITS PEOPLE AND ITS TRADE. 145 Midland track, near Karn (S: llicksons brick yard, and runningtoward the Dirt Bridge or Fair Grounds, and possibly connecting withthe Norfolk & Western road, very ample accommodations can beprovided for any new enterprise at very moderate cost. Situated as this City is, in the midst of a cheap and healthycountry, where labor and money are cheap ; where power, either bywater or steam can be economically applied ; where the raw materialis daily passing by us to seek distant factories ; where the climate isso moderate that cyclones and tornadoes are unknown, and wherethe zero point is almost unnoted on the thermometer, and men cando out-door work eleven and a half out of the twelve months of the. PROPERTY OF THE LYNCHBURG AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL SOCIETY.(tue maix buildixg and grand stands from the race track.) year, and where six railways ray out in six different directions, andconnect with the whole network of the land. North, South, East andWest—there is no place which so commends itself to the manufac-turer as a distributing point for his wares, or where he can sit so closeto the gateways of the great marts and enjoy their benefits and yetescape their burden of expense. THE LYNCHBURG AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL SOCIETY was organized in May, 1869, and in October of the same year heldits first annual Fair in the beautiful and extensive grounds belonging 146 SKETCH BOOK OF LYNCHBURG, VA. ; to the Society, near the southwestern boundary of the City. P. Tayloe, of Roanoke, was chosen as the first President, andthe late Mr. T. C. S. Ferguson, of Lynchburg, Chairman of the Ex-ecutive Committee, with Mr. Alexand
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