The Narrows Branch Article

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Gordon,

 

I would assume it was the Virginia Hardwood Lumber company since they donated the land for Camp Roland. Their camp in 1934 was between Highway 21 and Camp Roland. See page 21.

 

Alex

 

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The last installment of Alex Schust' exhaustive three-part article on the N&W Narrows branch in the current  issue of "The Arrow"  mentions narrow-gauge railroads, tram roads and Bland County's Boy Scout Camp Roland.  I attended Camp Roland as a scout in about 1946, and a hike that we took was generally up grade on what had obviously been a railroad or tram road roadbed as evidenced occasional railroad crossties embedded in the ground on our hiking path.  I recall that we hiked up to a fire tower (and a rock pile with rattlesnakes), but I do not recall whether we were on the former roadbed the entire distance.

Does anyone (including Alex, of course) have any information on this railroad or tram road that operated on the roadbed where we hiked that day?

Camp Roland's GPS coordinates from a website are:

Latitude, Longitude:
37.1784512°, -81.1889843°
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Gordon Hamilton

 


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