The late 1800s through the early 1900s were a bad time to travel by rail. We have highlighted many train accidents in the past, but it’s not often that a train wreck actually becomes a popular musical ballad. On September 27, 1903, a Southern Railway mail train, train number 97, and also known as the…
Tobacco Brides of Virginia
Tobacco brides or wives is a descriptive name for young, single English women whom the Virginia Company of London recruited in the early 1600s. They would emigrate to Colonial Virginia to marry a settler, where a significant gender imbalance existed between men and women. The expense to find the perfect companion fell upon the men…