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struggle, and the encounters at Manassas, Fred- 

 ericksburg and Chancellorsville and the burning 

 of Richmond were among the most important 

 events in the war. This great struggle, like the 

 Revolution, was concluded within Virginia's 

 borders, the surrender of General Lee taking 

 place at Appomattox. 



The New Era. After the period of Recon- 

 struction and Virginia's readmission into the 

 Union in 1870, the state's industrial growth be- 

 gan. The southwestern section developed into 

 an important mining region; new cities were 

 established, and Norfolk and Newport News 

 became commercial rivals of the Northern 

 ports. In 1902 a new constitution was adopted 

 limiting suffrage. Statewide prohibition went 

 into effect in 1916. 



Other Items of Interest. In Augusta County 

 is a great cavern which rivals Mammoth Cave 

 and Wyandotte Cave in beauty and interest. 

 It is called Weyer's Cave, for its discoverer. 

 Its chief beauty consists in its remarkable dis- 

 play of stalactites, but it has as well fountains 

 and geysers, cascades and miniature craters. 

 The Ghost Chamber and the Bottomless Pit 

 are names which have been given to parts of 

 the cavern. 



Norfolk is the greatest peanut market in the 

 world. 



Many prominent men, among them Jefferson 

 and Clay, cut their initials in the stone of the 

 Natural Bridge ; and the residents of the neigh- 

 borhood point proudly to a faintly scratched 

 "G. W.," which they declare, though without 

 real proof, is the mark of Washington. 



John Smith is often referred to as "the 

 Father of Virginia." 



Monticello, the estate of Thomas Jefferson, 

 is in Albemarle County, about three miles east 

 of Charlottesville. The mansion is on the sum- 

 mit of a hill the name means little mountain 

 and commands a view of a picturesque and 

 beautiful country. Since 1915 a movement has 

 been on foot for the purchase of the estate by 

 the Federal government, and the owner, Jeffer- 

 son M. Levy of New York, expressed himself as 

 willing to sell on condition that the mansion 

 should not be made a museum but should serve 

 as a country home for the Presidents. 



Sir William Berkeley, a colonial governor of 

 Virginia, once declared, "I thank God there are 

 no free schools nor printing, and I hope we 

 shall have none these hundred years." E.B.P. 



Commit Cooke's Stories of the Old Dominion; 

 Wert Virginia under the Stuarts (1607- 



1988); Claiborne's Seventy- flve Years in Old Vir- 



ginia; Page's The Old Dominion: Her Making 

 and Her Manners. 



Related Subject*. Much material that is of 

 interest in connection with a study of Virginia 

 may be found in the following articles : 



Alexandria 

 Bristol 

 Danville 

 Lynch burg 

 Newport News 

 Norfolk 



Bacon's Rebellion 

 Bull Run, Battles of 

 Burgesses, House of 

 Chancellorsville, 



Battle of 

 Fredericksburg, 



Battle of 

 Harper's Ferry 



Petersburg 

 Portsmouth 

 Richmond 

 Roanoke 



Staunton 



HISTORY 



Jamestown 

 Revolutionary War In 



America 

 Smith, John 

 War of Secession 

 West Virginia, subhead 



History 

 Yorktown. Siege of 



Apple 



Coal 



Cotton 



James 



Potomac 



Rappahannock 



LEADING PRODUCTS 



Oyster 

 Pyrlte 

 Tobacco 



Roanoke 

 Shenandoah 



TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES 



Alleghany Mountains Luray Caverns 

 Blue Ridge Natural Bridge 



Fall Line Piedmont Region 



VIRGINIA, MINN., a mining city in Saint 

 Louis County, situated in the northeastern part 

 of the state, twenty-two miles east of Hibbing, 

 seventy-five miles northwest of Duluth and 222 

 miles north of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. 

 Transportation is provided by the Duluth A 

 Iron Range, the Duluth, Missabe A Northern, 

 the Duluth, Winnipeg A Pacific and the Great 

 Northern railways. Virginia is a distributing 

 point for a rich lumber, dairy and mining dis- 

 trict, the iron mines of the Mesaba and Vermil- 

 ion ranges in the vicinity being among the 

 most productive in the world. The sawmills 

 employ about 1300 men; the dairy industry is 

 developing rapidly. Virginia has a Federal 

 building, a courthouse, a technical high school 

 which cost 1200,000, a library, a business col- 

 lege, and a fine First National Bank Building, 

 constructed at a cost of $100,000. The place 

 was settled in 1892, and became a city in 1905. 

 1 1 was twice burned by forest fires, in 1893 and 

 in 1903. The population increased from 10,473 

 in 1910 to 15,193 in 1916, the latter a Federal 

 estimate. T.H.M. 



VIRGINIA, UNIVERSITY or, a state institu- 

 tion of learning located at Charlottesville, four 



