New River Plateau Railway Company Act 1888

Access and use

Location of collection:
Wytheville Community College
F.B. Kegley Library
Wytheville Community College
Smyth Hall, Room 103
1000 East Main Street
Wytheville, VA 24382
Contact for questions and access:
POC: William A. “Bill” Veselik
Phone: (276) 223-4876
POC: George Mattis
Phone: (276) 223-4744
Fax: (276) 223-4745

Summary

Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

This printed pamphlet is entitled "An Act to Incorporate the New River Plateau Railway Company;" and was printed in 1888. The Act was approved 2 March 1888. Two copies of the pamphlet comprise this collection.

Biographical / historical:

The New River Plateau Railway Company, organized in May 1888, sought to construct a rail line between Pulaski, Virginia and the NOrth Carolina state line in Carroll or Grayson counties. In October 1889 it merged with the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company and was designated as the North Carolina Extension.

From the pamphlet: "Lewis T. Jennings, James N. Early, and D. W. Bolen, of the county of Carroll; John W. Robinson and James A. Walker of Wythe; J. E. Moore, Lee S. Calfee, and George T. Mills, of Pulaski, and Joseph I. Doran, W. C. Bullitt, and Evans R. Dick, of Philadelphia,, or such of them as may accept the provisions of this act, their associates, successors, and assigns, be and they are hereby incorporated and made a body politic and corporate under the name and style of New River Plateau Railway Company, and by that name shall be known in law, and as such are authorized and empowered to locate, construct, and operate a line of railroad from some point between Pulaski City, in the county of Pulaski, and Ivanhoe, in the county of Wythe, connecting with the Cripple Creek Extension of the Norfolk and Western Railroad, and running through the counties of Carroll, Grayson, Wythe, and Pulaski, or any of them, to such point on the North Carolina line in Carroll or Grayson as may seem most suitable to the directors of said company."

Acquisition information:
Purchased from Bookworm and Silverfish, Rural Retreat, Virginia, 2010.
Physical description:
2 items.