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Title: Statistical gazetteer of the state of Virginia : embracing important topographical and historical information from recent and original sources, together with the results of the last census population, in most cases, to 1854
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Edwards, Richard
Subjects: Virginia -- Gazetteers Virginia -- Statistics
Publisher: Richmond : Published for the proprietor
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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WE GAZETTEER OF VIRGINIA. 409 The soil near the rivers is fertile. Indian corn, wheat, and oats arecultivated. The waters abound w^ith fish and oysters, and firewoodis one of the chief exports. In 1850 this county produced 269,115bushels of corn; 82,774 of wheat, and 7897 of oats. It contained 1wheelwright establishment, 2 coach and 1 saddle manufactory, and1 tannery ; 13 churches, and 300 pupils attending public schools.Westmoreland county is distinguished as the birth-place of two
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Presidents of the republic, Washington and Monroe, and also ofRichard Henry Lee. The spot on which Washington was born, halfa mile from the Potomac, is marked willi a stone bearing this inscrip-tion, Here, on the 11th of February, (O. S.,) 1732, George Washington was born. Capital, Westmoreland Court House. Popula-tion 8,080; of whom 4,523 were free, antl 3,557 slaves. Westmoreland Court House, a village, capital of Weslniore-* land county, Virginia, C5 miles N. E. from Richmond. 52 410 PHILADELPHIA SUBSCRIBERS. THREE SILVER MEDALS. OO I i ^ PQ

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