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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ... owned by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The public schools of Lynchburg are on the most advanced plan, fully equipped with all modern appliances. Lynchburg is branching out in all lines of trade and industry. What has been done and is being done will be shown by the following: It has established industries, free schools, capital wholesale houses, and all the advantages of a solid city; the junction of three great railway systems--Norfolk and Western, Richmond and Danville, and Chesapeake and Ohio, and also the Lynchburg and Durham; the coal and iron of Virginia, with the cotton of the South, and cheap wool, lumber, hides and minerals, of a vast tributary region. It has 24 churches, an excellent system of free schools, 1 cotton mill, 3 barytes mills, 2 talc mills, 4 brick works, 2 furnaces, 1 cooperage, 1 spoke and handle factory, 1 bark extract, 4 flour mills, 4 grist mills, 1 bone mill, 2 sumac mills, 1 tannery, 3 iron furnaces, 1 brass foundry, 1 zinc reduction works, 3 marble works, 1 paint works, 5 candy manufacturers, 3 stone quarries, 3 daily newspapers, 2 weekly newspapers, 5 job printing establishments, 4 national banks, 1 State and 3 private banks, 3 building fund associations, 30 tobacco factories, 5 warehouses for sale of leaf tobacco, 1 storage warehouse, 1 drug mill, 4 sash and blind factories, 4 building material factories, 1 water-works, 1 gas-works, 5 planing mills, 1 incandescent light plant, 1 arc light plant, nail works, merchant bar mill, tobacco extract works, 2 hogshead factories, fertilizer works, street-car line, 3 book-binderies, 3 carriage and wagon works, wagon and agricultural implement works, 1 cannery, 3 harness works, 15 stemmeries, 6 cigar factories, 4 smoking tobacco factories, 2 cigarette factories, 1 snuff factory...
