Author: Virginia Writers' Project
Year Published: 1940 (1946 printing included corrections)
Year Printed: 1947 (4th printing)
Date Acquired: June 1, 2014
Where Purchased: Book Bank, Alexandria, VA
Price Paid: $15
Read Status: Read (November 13, 2014)
Notes/Thoughts
- I picked this book out when checking out the local used bookstore the first weekend after we bought our condo in Alexandria. My mom ended up buying it for me as a housewarming gift.
- I never considered that turnpikes/toll roads existed before automobiles until reading about the first turnpikes in Virginia being chartered in the early 1800s; because dirt roads became impassable with heavy traffic. (p. 92)
- Lots on Thomas Jefferson's influence on architecture
- In the 1890s, there was a plan to develop twin cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis in Virginia; but only Minneapolis never came to exist. (p. 537)
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