Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-29

to all the old settlers In the creek
country. because all the old Goose
creek families were made considera-
bly, poorer by the ambitious effort
to make Goose creek such O. busy
waterway that turnpike roads and
railroads would have very little
The Virginia legislature on March
10, 1892, passed an act reciting "that
1t shall be lawful to open books for
receiving and entering subscriptions
the navigation of Goose creek. Little
river and other improbable branches
of said creek. in the town of Lees
burg under the direction of the fol-
lowing commissioners: William ELL
zey. Presley Cordell, r. H. Hender-
Harrison: in the town of Middleburg,
under the management of Humphrey
b: Powell. Noble Beveridge, Abner
Glpson, Jesse McVeigh, Hugh Smith
ana Asa Rogers; in the town of Aldie
Berkeley. William holland. Edmund
Tyler and John Moore; at OAKLAND
Mills. under the management of
george Garter and Jesse TENNIS: at
SSpringheld. commonly called Gum
Charles Lewis. John Bayley, Charles
Gullatt and - Oden: at Balls mill,
on Goose Creek, under the manage
ment OF John Ball. and at Cooks mill.
on said creek, under the management
OF Edward p. Cooke"
The name adopted by the corpora
ton was the Goose Creek and Little
River Navigation Company. The char
ter Is long one and 1T sets forth that
the rights of owners of mills are not
n hn r1rfr
sation; that canals may be substituted
Tor dams and locks, and that If at any
future time the stockholders in
general meeting shall deem it expedi-
emit they may provide, along or near
tho said lines of improved navigation.
railway of one or more tracks for
the purpose of applying steam as the
propelling power Of the boats engage
ed in navigating the said canals and
In the fourteenth paragraph of the
of said lines Of navigation shall be as
before provided at the River Potomac
in the mouth of Goose Creek. and
shall be extended by common stem
to the mouth Of Little river. thence
lower end Of the Ashby's Gap turn
pike road: and along the valley of
Goose Creek from the mouth of
Little river up the creek to the mouth
Of that branch Of 1t into which Beaver
Dam empties o, ITS waters snd my
North Fork to the head of the pond
Of the first mill now erected on the
said fork and from the mouth of the
North Fork up the said main branch
of Goose creek to the head Of the
pond Of the first mill now standing on
Mill" The seventeenth paragraph
says that 1.-The creek. its improved
branches and canals and works in
virtue Of this act shall when COM
pleted be forever thereafter esteemed
and taken to be nay Vie. as public .3nS
of all goods. commodities and produce
whatever on payment Of the tolls i'm
posed by this act"
W.
The next paragraph recites: And
whereas 1t Is necessary for the maxi
ing Of said canal. locks. dams. ponds,
feeders and other works. including
houses Of lock tenders and storehouses
or depots for the reception and stor-
age Of commodities, that provision
should be made for condemning a
quantity of land for the said purpose"
prises. The Richmond and Yorktown
railroad was incorporated and so, too, was
the Fredericksburg and Potomac Creek
railroad, that being the first step to-
Ward building a line Of railroad which
after various extensions-the last one
being between the Long bridge nd Alex
andria-finally connected Washington
and Richmond by direct line. This line
is now known as the Washington South
ern and the fast and slow trains Of
several railroad companies pass over
1t. There was also Incorporated
in 1882 the Leesburg Railroad Com
pany, which planned the building of
a railroad from Leesburg to some
point on the Potomac river. The
managers of that enterprise were
Richard II. Henderson, John Rose,
Samuel NJ. Edwards. John Thomas,
Samuel M. Boss. Enos B. Cordell, j.
II. Monroe, Thomas Berkeley and
John ]. Mathews.
The charter Of the Goose Creek
and Little River Navigation Com