A few weeks later Washington went on a previously planned speaking tour along the newly completed Virginian Railway, a $ 40-million enterprise which had been built almost entirely from Rogers ' personal fortune.

* Booker T. Washington's 1909 Tour of Virginia on the newly completed Virginian Railway

The Virginian Railway ( VGN ), an engineering marvel of its day, was conceived and built by William Nelson Page and Henry Huttleston Rogers.

Transported by the N & W and neighboring Virginian Railway ( VGN ), local coal fueled half the world's navies.

The Virginian Railway is widely considered his final life's achievement.

He later developed the Virginian Railway.

* Mark Twain and Henry Huttleston Rogers in Virginia, excerpts from their trips together to the 1907 Jamestown Exposition and the 1909 Dedication of the Virginian Railway

The Virginian Railway is widely considered his final life's achievement.

Planned by Campbell County native William Nelson Page and financier and industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers, the Tidewater Railway was combined with the Deepwater Railway in West Virginia to form the new Virginian Railway in 1907.

Although it was a common carrier and offered limited passenger service until 1956, the main purpose of the Virginian Railway was to haul bituminous coal from the mountains to coal piers on the ice-free harbor of Hampton Roads.

The former Virginian Railway became part of the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1959, and it and the Southern Railway were combined in the early 1980s to form the current Norfolk Southern Railway.

In 1907, the Tidewater Railway was combined with the Deepwater Railway ( initially a West Virginia short line railroad ) to form the new Virginian Railway.

According to author H. Reid in his 1961 book The Virginian Railway, investors recalled the rapid growth of Roanoke between 1882 and 1884, which had been nicknamed the " Magic City " when the Norfolk and Western ( N & W ) had established major facilities at the former bucolic location which had been earlier known as Big Lick.

In 1907, as they began nearing completion, the Tidewater and Deepwater Railways were combined to form the Virginian Railway ( VGN ).

In March, the Tidewater Railway was formally rechartered by the Virginia State Corporation Commission as " The Virginian Railway Company " and William Nelson Page was elected president on April 15, 1907 at the first new board meeting in Norfolk.

Then, on December 1, 1959, the Virginian Railway merged with the larger Norfolk and Western Railway.

John Greenleaf Whittier's poem " Randolph of Roanoke ," although written after the Virginian had become a symbol of " slave power ," captures his strange brilliance:

Remington completed another novel in 1902, John Ermine of the Yellowstone, a modest success but a definite disappointment as it was completely overshadowed by the best seller The Virginian, written by his sometime collaborator Owen Wister, which became a classic Western novel.

A novel, The Dragon of Wantley, was written by Owen Wister ( best known as the author of The Virginian ) in 1892.

His other plays include: Peril, Fate, Risks, or Insure Your Life ( written for John Dillon ), The Virginian, The Big Bonanza, My Partner, The Galley Slave, The White Slave, Siberia, and his final play, Paquita.

A semi-serious literary document entitled `` The Wings Of Henry James '' is noteworthy, if only for a keenly trenchant though little-known comment on the master's difficult later period by modest Owen Wister, author of `` The Virginian ''.

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In this same period, on the initiative of the Virginian politician Charles F. Mercer and the Presbyterian minister Robert Finley from New Jersey, in 1816 the American Colonization Society ( ACS ) was established in Washington D. C. by American politicians, senators and religious leaders from a variety of orientations.

He was succeeded by John Tyler, a Virginian and states ' rights absolutist.

It was revoked in 1654 by William Claiborne, a Virginian who had been appointed as a commissioner by Oliver Cromwell and was a staunch advocate for the Anglican Church.

The first critically recognized Western was The Virginian by Owen Wister.

The Virginian, a seminal 1902 western novel by Owen Wister, solved the problem by taking the side of the wealthy ranchers, creating a myth dealing with the themes of the Johnson County war but bearing little resemblance to the events.

The city's media and news needs are served by The Virginian Review newspaper, which has been continuously published since August 10, 1914, and by AM radio station WKEY.

Vance, a Virginian, had been a member of the regiment commanded by George Washington at the Braddock expedition during the French and Indian War.

The area was first surveyed by Revolutionary War veteran and Virginian Edmund P. Rogers in 1800.

* Lewis, Lloyd D. ( 1994 ) Norfolk & Western and Virginian Railways in Color by H. Reid.

( 1956 ) Coal On The Move Via The Virginian Railway, reprinted with permission of Norfolk Southern Corporation in 1995 by Norfolk & Western Historical Society, Inc. ISBN 0-9633254-2-6

Poca is also memorialized in a series of art stamps and related stories created by the late noted West Virginian artist, Ben Mahmoud.

After noting that, unlike Lee, his fellow Virginian, Thomas stood by the Union, Sherman wrote: Sherman concluded that Grant and Thomas were " heroes " deserving " monuments like those of Nelson and Wellington in London, well worthy to stand side by side with the one which now graces our city of ' George Washington.

* The Virginian ( 1914 film ) directed by Cecil B. DeMille, with Dustin Farnum

* The Virginian ( novel ), a novel by American author Owen Wister

* The Virginian ( 1914 film ), a silent film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Dustin Farnum, based on the novel

By 1860 Virginian author George Fitzhugh was using the " challenging phrase “ master race ”, which soon came to mean considerably more than the ordinary master-slave relationship ".

Years later, author and photographer H. Reid, who wrote The Virginian Railway ( Kalmbach, 1961 ), labeled him the " Idea Man from Ansted.

The younger Wister grew up to become a popular American novelist and author of the 1902 western novel, The Virginian.

They had a son, Owen Wister, who became a popular American novelist and author of the 1902 western novel, The Virginian, now considered a classic of the western migration.

When the VGN lost its identity upon purchase by the Norfolk & Western in 1959, author and photographer H. Reid wrote the epic book " The Virginian Railway " and stated " There will always be a Virginian.

Philip Mallory “ Phil ” Conley ( 1887 – 1979 ) was a West Virginian historian, author and teacher.

The Virginian ( otherwise titled The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains ) is a pioneering 1902 novel set in the Wild West by the American author Owen Wister.

In his book The Virginian Railway ( Kalmbach, 1961 ), author H. Reid described some of the tactics used.