I think that it is very interesting how important logging was in the late 1800's and early 1900's. I am amazed at how many of the men that I am looking at were involved with railroad ties, or logging in any form. I would be interested in more information about this topic in general on this list and on some of my other lists. I think that we lose sight of the fact that timber was such a BIG cash crop in that time frame. A funny coincidence: my Hawkins line moved from Lousia/Orange County Virginia to CABELL county in what is now WV and became involved in selling Railroad ties to both the C&O and the N&W. And on another completely unrelated line in eastern Ky, I have a distant cousin probably removed once or twice who remembers in her prime (she is over 100) hand hewing a railroad tie to take into Louisa, Kentucky to sell when she needed something extra in her household....perhaps a child who needed new clothes for a special event...or well you get the idea.....something that her household found to be a luxury. The rivers and railroads and timber were so interconnected. I would like to be included, Randy, on any information that gets exchanged on this topic. marsha in WV Randy Cabell wrote: >Is there a book, or perhaps a dissertation somewhere on logging in Virginia in the 19th and 20th centuries? I am particularly interested in statistics -- employment, $$$$, % of workforce, etc. for this northwest part of the State---Clarke, Frederick, Warren Counties. > >Randy Cabell > >To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions >at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html > > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html