The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-08-19
URbANNA WANTS
RAILROAD AND
WANTS IT SOON
Rappahannock River Town is
Watching Richmond Plans
With Great Interest
SHIPPING FACILITIES
NEED OF THE HOUR
I
Quick Transportation Needed
to Develop MiddleseX
Village Into Busting
Community

There is no community watching
the various railroad propositions
which are now floating In the Rich
mond atmosphere with more lively
iatt-st.s. than tins thriving and enter
prising little town ON the lower Rap
pahannock river known as Urhanna.
Urbanna is the prospective ter
mlnal of the proposed Richmond and
Irbanna railway. Il is also the oh
.ectise point of the proposed West
Point and Urbanua railroad
Irbanna is hattered doubtless by
these pimeutary attentions ami
intentions on the part OF building
railway promoters hat the people OF
the town say they will feel vastly
more eiated TO see some Of the rail-
roads now in the air come to earth
and behave themselves Ike real live
railroad projects.
Some two or three years ago Ger
taia slchmotSd gentlemen organized
a company with number OF King
and Queen aud MiddleseX people on
the board Of directors for the par
pose of building the Richmond and
trttuna line This line remained IN
eomatose condition for a consider
able time and was Recently revived
ami. rs ts weft known. deal IL now
pending for the procuring of the
permission of the city councils of
Richmond to the transfer az the Seven
Fines branch OF the Virginia Hallway
and Power Company - the Rich
mand and Urb4nna Company
The milk ia the cocoanut Of course
Is the extinEuishment OF certain trans
fer privileges now enjoyed rs the
patrons Of the railway company
Urhauna feels perfectly capable ana
Its good people say that they are
altogether willing that the town he
the terminal OF one ~ a halt dozen
railroads and they are anXioUsly
awaiting the beginning Of the con
nruction Of at least one such line.
Town Beautifully Located.
The town Is beautifully located at
the mouth OF t-rbanna creek on the
Eappahannock river. II vas incor-
poFatef about ten years age and rs
six hundred or more people seem
10 lie getting along pretty VEL! as
Ii is. The town is connected by
steamboat lines with Baltimore. Fred
erickshurg and Norfolk. II has
plentiful and splendid supply of pure
water furnished by aTtesian wetls,
four in number, seven hundred feet
give the town eAty appearance. The
spiritual wants of tina peopIe are
supplied by three. churches, bapllFl.
Methodist ana episcopal Al e's nv
rhousand dollar hieh schoot hul!h-
ing has JUST tefn c2f5apEs.te1f hsaslhs
the town abreast OF the tunes from
M educational STANDPOINT
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state SENATOR 'o"h - 01ut'eIS -
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cashier. hanolss 'he n.oheS Oh VIC
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me oyster il',e'es's ', s' ~ oaainA a.
oohsioeraole ana "ouIa 10 very raw
ia.s fe,op -. 800,
3'ofsse'en 1laeflfties. sueh "s "uu'a
re aiIoroeu oy ram oau' pioNide n.-
me Fappahaih'eh ester iisei .s's
are among me most extensive ~ tne
state ana this uads "ouio center
al efpahna We're iacih'loS iVf an'eN
~ hahdhhg 'he catcn AT hahu'
fopuiar summer he>r|
orpanna Is popular summer re-
sort During the entire summer anu
at this present writing It's three no
teis--Hotel Nelson; the Ross iiouse
ana the burton House~-haFe peeh