The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-05
.H|ST0RY0F CREW
W|DE-A AWAKE TOWN
Born Q. Of Railway Shops III
Nottoway County Two
Decades Ago.
BRIGHT RECORD OF
JUST INVENT Y E "A RS
Twenty-Five Hundred Inhabi.
tants-Large Churches, Spleen
did Schools--Social and Fra v
ternal Orders Strong
Banks-Vigorous
Merchants. sI
by FRANK $. wooDsoN,
Industrial Editor.)'

(lndustrial Edftor.)
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extensive Yards and for it, shons' stt, ,,
lmarkinE was done IN an old field that Z.
but for an apple orchard nearby. would
have been a. barren waste. Indeed, all
of 1t except the orchard. which was
where the Y. NJ. c. "A. building now
stands. was very barren.
Without any flourish of trnmpets or
any ado about 1t. the railway peopleR
located the shops and established divi-s
sion headquarters here.
1 Before anybody outside Of the inner
circle knew what was going on. the
roundhouse and the shop buildings
Iwere being erected and the apple orr
chard was made the eadquarters@ Of a.
| hundred or more engineers. conductors,
| brakesmen and other trainmen. who
/ changed runs at this. the new end of
1.-THE eastern division. For several
months the trainn1en camped in the
| orchard when off duty and jolly life
tthey led that sumner. They had hunks
1 under the fruit trees and some of them
occupied upper berths's In the trees.
(which berths were improvised by the
laying ofSlboards across the brancheAr
4 On an old register, whichsis still In
existence, the men used to record their
ARRIVALS. and their quarters or roost.
Ing places were given as No. red
apple tree, No. IS. sweetening apple
tree. No. 2. June apple tree" ETC.
4 A Live Town Was Born.
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me ianu anu 'a.a u
town INTO 5iots. ma King streetsas ana
Vell iaHes ana s...es 8. Ing co COLI
pnny lso went TO building houses. and
by the first OF the 5nextsyears hey mad had
lerected seventy-five q welling and
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.ns uaa I,'
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tIles' IN aouitioi. 70 me pt.sy
SHOPS ana roun !, ana tWeNNn1v-hlY
stores, among tneH some som as nahusoHe
I. ana weli-stocRed turni Y ire cio mn 81
dry goods. department,s Eroce ry,ss or 81
hardware ana general 3 torres as are 70 70
be found anywhere In the count ry.Sss
me place mas very many handso g 2
reslde nces. and cosy cottages. We!l-8
paved s1deWalks, WHeli-Worked 1 8 straets,S
-, and n.husos
nld hlsh ana graded sen Dol, a 7
lnE e. NJ. Wlllcll WINS a
modious and WellSequlpp bu1ldinEs
and inter ds soon TO AZ PEI err g nd
larger one ana various olyne ssitu-sa
tons and enterprsises tha1 SO 70 make
4 VI, a delightful ONE i oWr. :i:t
5Among the enterprises not already
named are Touring mills. planning Mills
shops of various kinds. and two strong
and ably conducted banks. SsSs i,F
Rir Work Now Ahentl. III
,,.as :, !. i ~, !, /, "a, ~. ~, =
q l'4 49,, 1870, - y y
ny .W.I.'s s X, az
4 thas If,ht shefors there was held 4inathas
auditorium Of the Y. NJ. a.. a.. an ar-s
i thusiastic meeting Of the business men
i OF the place. and as Il kind o e scelerss
bration OF its birthday the Board Of
Trade Of Crewe was organized. or re-
organized, and tho business men
pledged each other that from now
i ~ n a Z last for the newt twenty years IL
4 thara shall be greater hustling III
crews than there has been even for
i the first twenty of Its young and ar-ss
tiye8iife and when8the town shall come
"a celebrate its twenty-fifthS anni-s
versaryi II shall be 2 much larger town