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

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AB et al:
Wasn't that the mines that showed up on a minerals map or old USGS we were
discussing?
Charlie Long

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 7:46 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> 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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