The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia

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  • The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia Book Detail

  • Author : Christopher E. Hendricks
  • Release Date : 2006
  • Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 222
  • ISBN 13 : 9781572335431
  • File Size : 26,26 MB
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The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia by Christopher E. Hendricks PDF Summary

Book Description: Hendricks writes on how towns in backcountry Virginia came about from the designs and ambitions of entrepreneurial individuals. They did not just spring up randomly in some pleasing meadow or on some riverbank happened upon by a frontiersman, for example, or a group which had struck out into the wilderness. "The people who put these plans [for towns] into action were motivated by a variety of economic, social, or philanthropic factors and sometimes purely by circumstance and opportunity." These entrepreneurial-like individuals were not a part of any organized movement. But their activities in toto played a large part in opening up the western parts of Virginia and setting a pattern for westward expansion. Among the towns Hendricks studies in larger topological areas such as the Piedmont and the Great Valley (Shenandoah) are Winchester, Marysville, Leesburg, Woodstock, Charlottesville, and Brent Town. Early maps of many of the towns especially demonstrate the ideas and purposes of their founders. Along with the maps, the authors specifics on the conception, establishment, and early period of the many towns makes each oe stand out distinctively. The enterprises and goals of the town were as varied as the individuals who conceived them.

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