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From: "Beverly Worsham" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 11:33 AM
Subject: Conley, Southampton Co., VA


> Another geography question.  We are trying to find the location of Conley.
> We know that it was a post office in Southampton Co., Va.  Patron has
> postcards postmarked from there between 1910-1916.  We haven't found it on
> current USGS maps, and it was not listed in 1855 gazetteer of VA and WVA.
It
> is listed in Gannett's Gazetteer of Virginia and West Virginia, pub. in
> 1904.  We think this place may have been associated with one of the lumber
> company railroads that were proliferating in this area during the early
> 1900's, but haven't found it mentioned in any books (mostly unindexed) or
> articles we have in the library. We had such a prompt response to our
> question on Napkins Branch, I thought we'd try the list again for this
> question.
> Beverly Worsham
> Rawls Library
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