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Southwest Virginia & Contiguous Territory, Map, 1886
Long associated with coal mining, southwest Virginia has an impressive list of other industries including farming, salt production, timber, and the mining of lead, copper, gypsum, and iron. These industries helped the region become known as the…
Antonio Sansone, Sansone Fruit Co., Norfolk, Photograph, c. 1915
Antonio Sansone was born in 1856 in Termini Imerese, Sicily. He immigrated to the United States in 1880. By 1899, he had established Antonio Sansone & Company, a wholesale dealer of fruit located on East Main Street, near the city market, in…
Jozsef Estéfan, Immigration Request, 1916
Early in the 20th century, thousands of European immigrants worked in the coalfields of southwestern Virginia. After the Civil War, rail companies had expanded westward as entrepreneurs and industrialists opened coal seams in the region. Beginning in…