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For the next three quarters of a century, this power company continued to consolidate smaller companies and increase the size of its power grid throughout Virginia and Northern North Carolina.","Much of the collection was originally arranged by the company according to an ambiguous lettering and numbering system that could not be deciphered by the processing archivist. The collection subsequently was\nrearranged according to current archival standards but the numbers for the original files were retained and are written on each folder. Ute Schechter, a former archivist at The Library of Virginia, was the\noriginal processor of this collection.","Virginia Electric and Power Company, Collection of miscellaneous brochures, ca. 1950 (LVA Accession 38155). 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Since the founding of this corporation, more than 250 subsidiary companies founded for various and sundry enterprises as\nwater power, real estate, horse shoe manufacturing, ice making, coal mining, laundry, railway and trolley service, ferry service and street lighting have joined the corporate ancestry of VEPCO. Like the Appomattox\nTrustees the earliest subsidiaries of VEPCO generally organized to focus on the development of canals and water power in Virginia. By the mid-19th century, however, the arrival of passenger railways and\nelectricity, especially in urban areas, had displaced water travel and power as the focus of VEPCO subsidiary companies. Many VEPCO subsidiaries flourished during the late 19th and early 20th century after the\nappearance of urban electrical streetcars.","On 29 June 1909, the Virginia Railway and Power Company was incorporated to acquire three of the largest rail companies in Richmond. This was the corporate birthday and the real beginning of the Virginia\nElectric and Power Company. During the 1910's the company operated streetcars in four cities under complex and inflexible franchises. After World War I streetcar fares failed to adjust to meet increased cost\ndemand. In the early 1920's city, state and national government and courts were asked to take charge of the crisis. Ultimately the Virginia State Corporation Commission took jurisdiction over public transportation\nand electrical companies, but failed to address the fare issue. As a result by the mid-1920's, streetcar and electrical companies had shifted their business pendulum to focus principally on the distribution of\nelectrical power. For the next three quarters of a century, this power company continued to consolidate smaller companies and increase the size of its power grid throughout Virginia and Northern North Carolina."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVirginia Electric and Power Company, Records, 1849-ca. 1995. Accession 37345, Business Records Collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.\n\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["Virginia Electric and Power Company, Records, 1849-ca. 1995. Accession 37345, Business Records Collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMuch of the collection was originally arranged by the company according to an ambiguous lettering and numbering system that could not be deciphered by the processing archivist. The collection subsequently was\nrearranged according to current archival standards but the numbers for the original files were retained and are written on each folder. 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