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Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railway CF&Y Reprint Soft Cover
Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railway
Soft Cover
Reprint 2000 from 1889
CONTENTS
Overview of the CF&YV Railway
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway System
Photos Pilot Mountain
Photo Front Street
EATERN DIVISION
Wilmington
Coaling Station Manufacturing
Photo City Hall, Wilmington NC
New Industries
The Growth of Wilmington
Exports
Shipping
Photo Turpentine Forest
Fisheries
The Water-Supply
Wharf and Terminal Facilities
Wilmington to the Health or Pleasure
Photo Surf Bathing
The Citys Government &c
Miscellaneous
Agricultural and Timber Resources &c
Photo Grove with Spanish Moss near Wilmington NC
The Bridge Over the Cape Fear
Fayetteville A Great Inland Trade
Photo Old Market-House, Fayetteville NC
Manufactures
Hav Street Fayetteville NC
Mercantile Business &c
Attractions for Northern Tourists
Characteristics of the People &c
Photo Eccles Park Fayetteville NC
Miscellaneous
Photo Hope Mills No 2 Nearing Completion
SOUTHERN DIVISION
Hope Mills
Red Springs
Photo Turpentine Still Maxton NC
Maxton
Bennettsville
Intermediate Stations
Photo Cotton Field about Floral College NC
Upper Cape Fear and Deep River Division
Minerals
Water-Power
Agricultural Mills
Manchester Mills
McFayden Springs
Jonesboro
Photo Cotton Platform, Jonesboro NC
Sanford
The Egypt Coal Mines
Mount Vernon Springs
Siler City
Photo Water Tower Greensboro NC
Staley
Liberty
Greensboro
The Citys Growth
National Bank of Greensboro NC
Public Works and Improvements
Manufactures
Mercantile Business &c
Photo South Elm Street Greensboro NC
Business Organization
Tobacco Interests
School Advantages
Photo White Grade School Greensboro NC
Public Buildings
A Pleasant Place of Sojourn
The City of Flowers Characteristics of the People
Photo Residence of Julius A Grav, esq Greensboro NC
Miscellaneous
PIEDMONT AND MOUNTAIN DIVISION
Minerals
Manufacturing
The Madison Branch
Walnut Cove
Photo Flat Rock near Mt Airy NC
Danbury
Piedmont Springs
Germanton
Mount Airy
Photo Flat Rock near Mt Airy NC
Flat Rock
White Sulphur Springs
SCENERY OF THE ROUTE
Moores Creek Battle-Ground
Gulford Battle-Ground
Pilot Mountain
View on Ararat River
Ararat River
The Blue Ridge
Old Style Cotton Press near Gulf NC
RECAPITULATION
Minerals
Timber Resources
Photo Tobacco Warehouse Greensboro NC
A Great Commercial Highway
Inducements for Investments
THE TRANSMONTANE EXTENSION
North Carolina Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley System
PREFACE
Perhaps no other railroad has ever had a name that described its colorful route as succinctly as the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railway. The marque vividly conjures visions of the swampy, lush coastline overlooking the lapping waves of the Graveyard of the Atlantic, while at the same time highlighting the ancient nooks and crannies of the storied Appalachians. The Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley - certainly the quintessential name for a trans-North Carolina railroad.
Though dead and buried since the last years of the nineteenth century, the spirit of this historical line refuses to fade away. This book is a reprint of the milestone publication that the CF&YV published in 1889 to attract primarily industry, as opposed to tourists, to the region that the line served. It was a ground-breaking
marketing concept, one that included a quality hardcover book printed in a 4 color cover that bound spectacular lithographs accompanied by a lengthy, hugely informing text. The idea of attracting factories to the underdeveloped North Carolina resources, instead of tourists to the coast or mountains, was nearly as revolutionary to the economy of the state as the introduction of railroads themselves!
Though expensive to produce for the era, the book's concept was validated a few years later by a rival of the Cape Fear &Yadkin Valley. In 1898, the Southern Railway published its answer to the Cape Fear book with its own landmark book "The Empire of the South." Naturally, this new book borrowed wildly from the basic premise and format of the Cape Fear's. And during the coming decades, the Southern Railway took the concept of recruiting industry to its territory to completely new heights in its bid to become the most successful railroad of the twentieth century.
The founders and builders of the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley, while not sharing the same contemporary success of their rivals, have nevertheless been proven over time for their visionary concepts and marketing prowess. Though the line was sold in 1899 and split in half by two other railroads, its history as a unique Carolina railroad still shines brightly. This reprint (of which there are only three known original copies) faithfully reproduces the content of the original and stands as a testament to the enduring legacy of the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railway, as do the economic life-breathing portions of the railroad that exist to this day. This reprint of the book is copied down to its original errors (ie, Southern Pacific should read South Carolina Pacific on p. 10), and the stray "dots" that accompany many of the pages reflect original printing and paper imperfections. Only the "newer" photographs and following chapter are added to the original publication.
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