The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-28
NEW TOWN GETS
. ON VIRGINIA 'SMAP
Alb erta, Where Two
Great Railway Lines
Connect.
|.F Rec SITES FOR
WIDE-AW AXE MEN
Alberta, Marked by Nature and
Railway Facilities, to Become
Busy Place That Virginia
Will Be Proud Of-Great
Timber and Farming
Country.
BY FRANK S. wooDsoN,
Industrial Editor.

Alberta, Brunswick County, Va,
August 27.-Ninety-five per cent OF
the towns and cities In this country.
that Is. in heeastern part OF It, just
naturally grew from a beginning that
had nothing in the way of city building
in view at the time. In Virginia, for
instance, 1t may be said that every
city and every town of any import
ance commenced as a crossroads
store; from that ran up to village,
then to a town and then to a city,
perhaps, and went through all of these
changes in a hapha2ard way, SO that
when they did finally reach town or
city proportions they had crooked
streets, odd squares improvised parks.
etc.
In the West there are many towns
and some cities that were laid off as
such from the very beginning. That
is before any houses We're built the
streets were laid off, straight as an
arrow. parks were provided for, the
business section was selected and tho
residence sections were arranged be-
forehand. In many cases sewer sys-
TENS were provided for. water
works arranged and streets partly
paved and sidewalks built before the
houses commenced to go up on the
business and residence lots. Such
towns, some of them now large
! enough to be called cities. do not
have to be dug up for sewer pipes
and water pipes, and paving every
year, as in Richmond. for instance. /
know a town in Virginia that was com.
menoed three years ago in this way
and it is already a considerable town.
and is destined to DE city In my
opinion.
Town of Alberta That Is to BE.
I know OF another town that is
right now being laid off exactly on
this twentieth century plan, and un-
less all the signs Of the times fail.
and all OF the well laid plans of one
OF the best business men In the State
shall go wrong, 1t is going to be a
town, too. I am writing from this
proposed town now, and Alberta is
its name Alberta is located In what
Is probably the best farming section
of Brunswick county. where the great
virginian Railway crosses the equally
as great Seaboard Air Line Railway.
It Is sixty-one miles from Richmond.
thirty-eight miles from Petersburg.
ninety-eight from Norfolk and $50
miles from Roanoke. 1t Is In section
that is covered largely with timber
some Of the finest in the State, that
has been growing on the hills and In
10 these many years. and then the lo-
cation is such that when the town be.
comes manufacturing and wood
working centre, as undoubtedly 1t Will,
and when the buzzinE Of tho machtn-
cry of the sawmills and the furniture
factories that are to spring up here
is to be heard, the hills and the VAL
sleys of large portions of Greenesville. +
Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, NottoWay
and Dinwiddie counties Will market
millions upon millions OF feet OF the
best OF timber here. As is Well known
these counties are all rich in pine. oak,
hickory, poplar, gum and all of the
hardwoods that go into the manufac-
tura Of furniture and into the build
ing Of houses.
IDEAL Site for n Town.
When several years ago the Vir-
pininn Railway was built along here
and crossed over the Seaboard at this
point on a magnificent stone and steer
yinduot, Captain Charles s. Barrow
large land owner, lumber lana dealer
and sawrnill man. and one OF tue me li'oss z
energetic and wide awake business
Nan In brunswick county, looked up-
on the beautifully lying land mere,
raxed around upon the magnificent
t,mber growth looked lovingly upon
tho most prosperous farming section
~ +he county and said to himselr II
Providence ever marke< out q P'ae PICS
for n beautiful and prosperous poWn. :
+ha lines were drawn right here Inlss
thought was never from that day 20
this out OF his mind, and as soon as
he could, he acquired the pulk VI .ne
land around about the railway cfoss
ing, more than 500 acres - az, aau
here he proposes ~ 1tA.l-> 1tA.A->> - $
come true iss
A. nresent Alberta is not q town. not 4
evsn q a Village, for the only buildings
here are two little stores. q M M.niau Saa
being built: a splendid new unioh va ue
pots po ths qse' hills s Surrounding several nice
old fashioned farm houses. but ii,lr- ~. -s8 #
row has laid off his town all ths same, y
and he Is soon. going 20 nave tpeS Saua va
examined the town on the plue prihS
and I have walked and driven IN g
buggy through and over and anouL .lls
roW Mtae has slehi laid off beautiful streets that
are eighty feet vide and avenues snae
are sixty feet In width. 4 manuiac-
turing, section has been laid ,e an sr Whsrs N
With ease; a business section has been
designed where the stores and the Nc,
tells and other things are TO locate, ahu
charming plots for ro,sas nss,ashnss have % hsep
left for parks, etc, and the, slue PRIV
out look very much like a town eScep.
for the absence OF houses They VIII
come in time, for Barrow, Is golins ms ~ to
have a model town, and mere IS ms
unique plan: 49,,
"A, Having laid off the pretty ground
and had the same spTVeSed, ne has s
arranged for several tndustrles 20 com
mente at an early date. One Is to be 4
81 hic wood-working establishment 20 +
mako all kinds of building marsrial, ate y N
dress timbers for ho,ise-buildlng, Ans.
other Is to be a brick and tlle-n1aking
establIshment, Sawmills and plaintng
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