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Title: Sketch book of Lynchburg, Va. Its people and its trade ..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Pollock, Edward, (from old catalog) ed Judson, Selden C., pub. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Lynchburg, Va., Printed by the Virginia job printing house
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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es and immunities to those who built or those who resided on themIheir purpose was also favored, and even stimulated, by the Govern-ment, from fiscal considerations. But most of these legislative effortsfailed, and none were very successful. Thus, in 1680, as many astwenty towns were authorized by Act of Assembly, being one foreach County; yet at not more than three or four of the desicrnatedspots IS there even a village remaining to attest the propriety of theselection. ^ There were, indeed, wanting in the Colony all the ordinary con-stituents of a large town. Here were no manufactories to bringtogether and employ the ingenious and industrious. The Colonists SKETCH BOOK OF LYNCHBURG, VA. ; LYNCH HOUSE. LEADING HOTEL. ■4 CO cr-»- •^ CD CD cot •^CDCD FIVE MI^aTEg W^LK FI^GJ^ DEPOT. $2,00 Per Day, Meals and Lodgings, 50 Cents Each,TABLE UNEXCELLED. Best Sample Rooms in the City.hot and cold baths. Baggage Wagons and Porters Meet all Trains. Omnibus Free. PETTYJOHN & MARSHALL,
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n^OFR,IETOI?.S, I-j3rr:Lc):nLb-L:Lrg^, TTirgrirLia.- ITS PEOPLE AND ITS TRADE. 01 devoting themselves exclusively to agriculture, owned no shippingwhich might have induced tiiem to congregate for the sake of carrying ontheir foreign commerce to more advantage; here was no Court, which,by its splendor and amusements, might attract the gay, the volup-tuous and the rich; there was not even a class of opulent landlords,to whom it is as easy to live on their rents in town as in the country,and far more agreeable. But the very richest planters all cultivatedtheir own lands with their own slaves; and, while those lands fur-nished most of the materials of a generous and even profuse hospitality,they could be consumed only where they were produced, and couldneither be transported to a distance nor converted into money. Thetobacco, which constituted the only article of export, served to payfor the foreign luxuries which the planter required ; yet, with hissocial habits, it was barely sufficient

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