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Excerpt from The History of Nansemond County, Virginia Located upon deep water, accessible. To all tidewater markets, from a very small beginning the business has become one of some magnitude its present annual output being twelve million building brick, In addition to other products. The Com pany is fortunate in owning what is, probably, one of the most valuable clay deposits in Eastern Virginia, it being a peninsular, several hundred acres in extent, bounded on the east by a narrow creek, south by the Nansemond River, west by the western branch of the Nansemond, and upon the north by the public highway leading from Suffolk to Smithfield. Upon this public road the Company have a handsome brick store, well stocked with goods, and also their General Manager's residence: Lying in the world's best Peanut territory, these lands have, under the intelligent culture of their General Manager, who is a stockholder in the Company, become profitable holdings, aside from their v'alue on account of a deep and strong brick clay subsoil of from ten to twelve feet in depth. With a second plant nearly equipped having sufficient capacity for fully doubling their output, unlimited raw material, the use of the most modern machinery and methods the remarkable in crease infertility of their lands, the location of some twenty five families of employees upon this property, and the gradual but sure increase of their merchandising business, we think the Company may reasonably look to the future with hope and confidence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in