Excerpt from The City of Manchester, Virginia

A Brief Summary of Her Past: Some Facts and Figures about Her Present, with a Glance at Her Prospects for the Future.

The city Of Manchester, Va., is situated on the jam'es River, Opposite the city of Richmond, and, while a separate corporation, is, in its business relations, practically part of that city. Man: chester is bordered on the north and east by the James River, which almost entirely hugs it in, with its romantic falls and splendid and unsurpassed water-power, and lower down with its line wharfage and shipping facilities. Itis bordered on the south and west by the county Of Chesterfield, With its fine farming and trucking lands, beautiful suburban residential sites, healthful and life-giving mineral Springs, splendid railway facili ties, magnificent granite quarries. Excellent manufacturing 1 tions, and beautiful parks. This part of the county embraces Manchester in its loveliness and beauty; and is, for all business; purposes, a part and parcel Of the city. Manchester is situated on a series of high and gently sloping hills, which originally formed natural terraces, extending from the crests Of these ridges to the river. These hills have now been graded and arranged for the purpose of one of the most thrifty and progressive little cities of the State. It was established in Colonial days by an act of the House of Burgesses Of the Colony. For many years it was one Of the most beautiful and influential villages of Vir ginia, retaining much of the simplicity and attractiveness Of an English village. It kept these characteristics, in the main, until a short period before the late war, and after that date rapidly altered its conditions and evirons to meet the demands of the new order Of things. Beautifully and most advantageously located, it has attracted much attention in the past and is destined. To attract more in the future.

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