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 . asses through Virginia, having Fredericksburg,Richmond and Petersburg in its route, and being continuedsouth and south-west to Wilmington, Columbia, etc. This isthe route of the great southern mail. There are, besides thesenumerous short lines, branches, etc., diverging from the mainlines to several important points. The whole extent of com-pleted railroad in the State on
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 . asses through Virginia, having Fredericksburg,Richmond and Petersburg in its route, and being continuedsouth and south-west to Wilmington, Columbia, etc. This isthe route of the great southern mail. There are, besides thesenumerous short lines, branches, etc., diverging from the mainlines to several important points. The whole extent of com-pleted railroad in the State on the 1st January, 1853, was 624miles, and about 800 miles more were in course of canals of Virginia are—the James river and KanawhaCanal, the Dismal Swamp Canal, and the Alexandria Baltimore and Ohio Canal, though in Maryland, is to allintents and purposes, as much a canal of Virginia as of thatState, being only separated from it by the channel of the Poto-mac river. The Alexandria Canal, which is a continuation ofthe Baltimore and Ohio Canal, from Georgetown to Alexan-dria, is seven and a half miles long, and is carried over the Po- 96 RICHMOND BUSINESS DIRECTORY. EXvHANuE
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