Dora, Crozier, Radford, Salem, Beuna Vista Furnaces: Quid est?

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Abram,

You are spot on about the poor original index to Barnes' book on the history of the city of Roanoke.  His original index was 14 pages, but Betty Low of the local historical society later spent a tremendous amount of effort and produced a 115-page index of Barnes' book.  Her index is bound into the currently available copies of Barnes' book, but I do not know whether the index is available by itself.

Gordon Hamilton
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  What became of the blast furnaces at Dora, Crozier, Salem, Beuna Vista & ?

  The first attached PDF, lifted from the 1902 Moody's Manual of Corporation Securities, shows that they were all aquired in 1899 by a company called Virginia Iron Coal & Coke, headquartered in Bristol. Interestingly CI&C also had control of the Virginia & Southwestern RR at Bristol.

  The second attached PDF is a thesis written in 2011 by Patrick Dickerson at James Madison University, dealing with the Virginia Iron Coal & Coke. The thesis shows that the iron business of the company failed within two decades, and that the company limped along by leasing its coal lands, finally being acquired by anoter entity in 1969.

  The siding books of the 1960s showed sidings owned by (or perhaps "formerly owned by") Virginia Iron Coal & Coke. One of them was near "Furnace Crossing" (go figure!) I do not recall where the other ones were.

  Raymond B. Barnes' 1968 "History of the City of Roanoke" is not well indexed, and I do not have time to dig out from it the details of the end of the West End Furnace (Rolling Mill) in Roanoke.

  BTW, there was an excellent trade publication called "Iron Age," which covered quite well the comings and the goings of the various small iron producing companies. I believe most of the Iron Age volumes are now vailable on Google Books.

  -- abram burnett

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