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Gordonsville, Virginia

其他書名	Historic Crossroads Town
出版	McClure Press, 1971
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=OycTAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"Gordonsville, Virginia: Historic Crossroads Town" tells the rich and varied story of a community from post-Revolutionary tavern and stagecoach days to the 1970 centennial of its incorporation as a town. Nathaniel Gordon's tavern, a "good house" Thomas Jefferson called it, was also visited by Presidents Madison and Monroe and other famous guests. The rail lines which joined at Gordonsville, spurring development as a town, made it of vital importance to General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. The Civil War chapter describes in detail those great and terrible years. The decades of the 1870's-1880's witnessed Gordonsville's role as a thriving railroad town. After a decline, a vast speculation in land development momentarily excited the community -- and, as with other "booms," collapsed. The book brings the history of Gordonsville through the progress and troubles of twentieth-century years to the centennial celebration of 1970. -- From publisher's description.