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Penn Virginia Corporation records
Penn Virginia Corporation was an oil and gas company, incorporated as the Virginia Coal & Iron Company on January 6, 1882. It was one of many firms established by a group of interrelated entrepreneurs headed by John Leisenring (1819-1884), a Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, civil and mining engineer. The name changed to Penn Virigina Corporation in 1967. The records of Penn Virginia Corporation cover the development and operations of the Virginia Coal & Iron Company, a large southern Appalachian land company, with some information on its immediate neighbors and local support facilities.
"The Pennsylvania Railroad: Survey of Large Industrial Sites in the Buffalo-Rochester, New York, Area"
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the Northeast's and Midwest's dominance in manufacturing. This unpublished report is a survey containing an analysis of seven large tracts near the company's lines in western New York State that were available for factory sites, including labor availability, population, climate, energy, and water supply.
U.S. Route 1 plat, showing properties
Route 1 is a major north-south U.S. highway extending from Florida to Maine. The plat depicts a small portion of Route 1 between Hamorton and the Anvil Inn, including P.S. du Pont's (1870-1952) Longwood Gardens.
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- Ayers, Rufus A. (Rufus Adolphus), 1849-1926 1
- Blackwood Coal and Coke Company 1
- Boone County Coal Corporation 1
- Clinchfield Coal Corporation 1
- Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895 1
- Kemmerer, John L., 1869-1944 1
- Kemmerer, Mahlon S. 1
- Leisenring family 1
- Leisenring, E. B. (Edward Barnes), 1895-1952 1
- Leisenring, E. B., Jr. (Edward Barnes), 1926-2011 1
- Leisenring, Edward B. (Edward Barnes), 1845-1894 1
- Leisenring, John, 1819-1884 1
- Longwood Gardens (Kennett Square, Pa.) 1
- Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company 1
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- Pardee, Calvin, 1841-1923 1
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- Taggart, John K., 1851-1896 1
- Taggart, Ralph E. (Ralph Enos), 1887-1951 1
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- Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company 1
- Virginia, Tennessee and Carolina Steel and Iron Company 1
- Wentz family 1
- Wentz, Daniel B. (Daniel Bertsch), 1872-1926 1
- Wentz, John S. (John Shriver), 1838-1918 1
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