N&W in 1910--New connection

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>From searching on Google, it appears that there was a "Brinton Mine"

that mined arsenic from 1912-1917, located on Lick Ridge, somewhere
(couldn't figue the exact location) up Goose Creek off of the South
Fork of the Roanoke River. 


> [Floyd County is the next county south of Montgomery County, where

> Shawsville is located, and Floyd County never got a railroad.]


Technically, I believe the last mile or so of the Radford branch up
to Claytor Lake dam extended into Floyd County.

Joe Shaw
Christiansburg, VA
http://www.krunk.org/