Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Excursion Guide of the Virginia Midland Railway: The Short-Line Through-Car Route Between the North and South, the Virginia Springs, Western North Carolina and North Georgia Summer Resorts
Somerset and Barboursville - stations on the newly-constructed link between Orange and Charlottesville - are passed before we enter the splendid county of Albemarle. Much space is given to this county, to its university town, its great museum of natural history. Its fine stock farms, its little-known but important school for the edu cation of poor boys, and its growing industry of wine-making from native grapes, which has already assumed such large proportions.
At Charlottesville the Virginia Midland Railway intersects the great highway to the Virginia Springs, the Chesapeake 81 Ohio Rail road. A hurried description of these Springs, of the towns and vil lages, the great furnaces and the grand scenery for which this railroad is remarkable, is given. Coming back to the Virginia Midland Rail way, we pass through the counties of Nelson and Amherst, where the justly - celebrated pippin and other apples are grown to as much perfection as in Albemarle; and where, more particularly in Amherst, the development of iron has assumed so much importance of late years.
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