"Castle Rock Branch" off the Roanoke & Southern ... ?

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Abram,

This short-lived branch passed about 0.5 miles from where my home is 
located in Southwest Roanoke County (but long before this neighborhood 
was developed).  The branch left the Punkin Vine somewhere near where 
present-day VA 419 passes under the track, and its route is roughly 
followed by VA 419 today until the point where the branch crossed Mud 
Lick Creek, where I seem to remember reading that a ore washing plant 
was located.  The branch continued from the creek up grade to the ore 
mines along about where Castle Rock Road runs today.  Until developers 
chopped down all of the trees to build dwellings named ironically 
"McVitty /Forest/," and especially moved a lot of earth around, it was 
possible to see the branch right of way where it approached Mud Lick 
Creek on its way to the mines.

Gordon Hamilton


On 11/9/2017 4:12 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>
> Annual Report No. 13, for the year ending 1-31-1893, mentions the 
> "Castle Rock Branch" :
>
>
> "The Roanoke & Southern Railway, leased by your Company, completed its 
> Castle Rock Branch, 2.79 miles in length, to an iron ore deposit, from 
> which extensive shipments are now being made."
>
>
> Anyone know where this branch was located?  My guess is that it was 
> north of Martinsville, as there never seems to have been any ore 
> development south of there.
>
>
> -- abram burnett
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