num_pages: 252
description: Virginias back roads and rural areas are dotted with traces of once-thriving communities. General stores train depots schools churches banks and post offices provide intriguing details of a way of life now gone. The buildings may be empty or repurposed today the existing community may be struggling to survive or rebuilding itself in a new and different way but the story behind each communitys original development is an interesting and important footnote to the development of Virginia and the United States. Lost Communities of Virginia documents thirty small communities from throughout the Commonwealth that have lost their original industry transportation mode or way of life. Using contemporary photographs historical information maps and excerpts of interviews with longtime residents of these communities the book documents the present conditions recalls past boom times and explains the role of each community in regional settlement.
language: English
title: Lost Communities of Virginia
publisher: Virginia Polytechnic Institute