N&W in 1911--Buys another railroad

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Not quite coordinates, but the attached 1937 USGS topo map shows Merrimac to be the crossing of the N&W Blacksburg Branch over the Virginian main line and Merrimac Mines to be less than a mile to the north.  It may be hard to make out, but there is the crossed hammer and pick symbol for a mine just to the left of the label, "Merrimac Mines."  Also, note that there was a short spur leading off to the east just south of Merrimac Mines.

Gordon Hamilton
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  I hope some erudite and generous soul can post GPS coordinates for the "anthracite" mines on the old Virginia Anthracite Coal & Railway Company.  Surely information on the excavations must have been published in state geological reports of that era.


  Mr. Bruce Harper of Blacksburg... Thou art deputized to make exhaustive research upon this topic, and report back to the ye List with diligence !


  -- abram burnett,
            denizen of nov cumberlandgorod

        



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