J. Frank Mancha's Claremont Colony And Surrounding Country. Nos. 2 And 3 -

Claremont, Surry County, VA, 1883. [With:] Cheap Excursion / To Claremont Colony, on James River, VA. / [followed by 32 lines describing the trip]. New York, 1882-1883. Large folio. Two issues, printed both sides, illustrated promotional material for the Claremont development, including land plats, and a broadside, 9 x 6 3/8 inches. "The town of Claremont was incorporated in 1886. J. Frank Mancha, a Maryland real estate developer, created the town and promoted the sale of land in the town and the Claremont Colony surrounding it. Willie Allen had inherited the Claremont estate, consisting of more than 12,000 acres, after the Civil War. He moved to New York and left it to be subdivided and sold by others. Frank Mancha took on the Claremont development project in 1879. After his death in 1890, others continued to promote land sales in the Claremont area. Although Claremont once boasted three saloons, it never developed into the city its promoters had envisioned" (Rootsweb). Apparently nothing recorded in Haynes concerning the Claremont Colony. Of the larger "sales sheets," OCLC locates one from 1884 at the Library of Virginia and two from 1887 at the University of Virginia. The broadside is apparently unrecorded on OCLC. Snag in the broadside, affecting several letters, but a very good lot of three items related to a late 19th-century Surry County development. Folded. (#5316).