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Bruce, thanks for that... and I do use VC quite a bit lately for some of my
scouting history research, but haven't really exhausted it yet for the
Rorer stuff. VC has somewhat sketchy coverage in places for this period of
early Roanoke history, as does Newspapers.com, but I'm still digging. I
also need to start triangulating my sources, I'm sure you've already done,
by looking for articles about Roanoke in the Danville, Lynchburg, and
Richmond papers.

If you have any good links to chancery court records for Virginia, and
corporation history, I'm all ears. I've been advised by a friend to go in
that direction for some of this early Roanoke business information that did
not make it into the newspapers.

Stephen Warren
Roanoke


On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 10:36 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Stephen Warren, in the thread about Rorer Iron et al, said, " I'm only now
> finishing up with the existing 1886 newspapers where F. Rorer has gone
> bankrupt, having left the state as his assets are being sold off. . . .
> I've run out of newspapers at the Virginia Room library, so I'm going to
> have to get creative while I look for more information on the financial
> story of Rorer Iron Company."
>
> A great resource that can be used from the comfort of your home is the
> Virginia Chronicle project set up by the Library of Virginia (
> https://virginiachronicle.com/). Newspapers (and various newsletters)
> have been collected, scanned, and digitized. "This collection contains
> 135,306 issues comprising 1,042,542 pages and 183,885 articles."
>
> Bruce in Blacksburg
>
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