Where is "Crockets"

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On Sat, Jul 14, 2018, at 2:49 PM, Stephen wrote:

I'm looking at the AM&O annual report from 1874, where it describes
> building a depot building and platform at "Crocket's." Is this the same
> Shawsville station which I asked about earlier as "Alleghany Station" in my
> stereoviews by a New York photographer? There is a Crockett Springs Road up
> by that same area, and I'm guessing that it's all the same place.
>

​Google turned up the answer, in the publication "Resources of South-west
Virginia: Showing the Mineral Deposits of Iron, Coal, Zinc, Copper and
Lead. Also the Staples of the Various Counties, Methods of Transportation,
Access, Etc ..." written by Charles Rufus Boyd and published by J. Wiley &
Sons, 1881.

Crockett's is a depot on the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad, seven
miles west of Wytheville, and is now the shipping point for much of the pig
metal made in that end of the county. It has a good steam mill for grinding
plaster, besides other improvements, stores, etc.

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https://books.google.com/books?id=VeAQAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA83&ots=dFgwiE0f5I&dq=Atlantic%2C%20Mississippi%20and%20Ohio%20Crocket's&pg=PA83#v=onepage&q=Atlantic,%20Mississippi%20and%20Ohio%20Crocket's&f=false

​Crockett still exists, see https://goo.gl/maps/dheBGzVtzQm

Bruce in Blacksburg
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