First Advertisements of the Virginia & Tennessee Rail Road ?

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Maybe not as much as one might think:



This is from a government document entitled Statistical View of the United States

Best
Ken Miller

> On Jan 13, 2022, at 10:04 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Very interesting reading for sure.
> 
> How long, I wonder, would someone have to work in order to earn the $5.50 to pay the fare from Lynchburg to White Sulphur Springs in 1852?
> 
> Perhaps someone well versed in the concept of Time Value of Money might provide the answer.
> 
> Brian Gilleran
> Herndon, VA
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> 
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>> On Jan 12, 2022, at 6:44 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>> Well, that's a guess.  But I have never seen anything earlier than 1852 for the V&T.
>> 
>> So the attached PDF contains the advertisements placed by the V&T RR in the brand-spanking-new Lynchburg Daily Virginian newspaper on its first three days of publication, August 10-11-12, 1852.
>> 
>> Those advertisements show how far west the railroad was operating at that time, and what service was offered.  Perhaps something may have been run earlier in the Richmond newspaper.
>> 
>> Were I not so taken-up with administering my Turnip Plantation and its associated fortune, I would scour every know source and piece together into one document every scrap of information on the V&T's early operating history.  But since I am presently engaged, this would be a good task for the Consulting firm of Blackstock Bundy Hamilton & Sandermann, Advisors, LLC.
>> 
>> -- abram burnett, CEO
>>  Peloton Turnips, Made More Efficient by Slipstreaming
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