Halifax County, Virginia, 1907: A Handbook, Prepared Under the Direction of the Board of Supervisors (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Halifax County, Virginia, 1907: A Handbook, Prepared Under the Direction of the Board of Supervisors

Why is this county of Halifax, with all its natural advantages, Sparsely* settled in the ter-centenninal year, 1907? Simply because more than forty years are necessary to make conditions normal after a war that has been fought at peoples' doors. Lands which before the Civil War were worth four and five times their present rating, after the war were thrown out of cultivation, be cause neither capital nor labor was to be had for the proper working of them. Plantations before the war were little dominions. The extensive system was the only system in repute. The war changed the basis Of profit from the extensive to the intensive system, but it requires time for a people to understand fully that conditions have been changed.

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