About The Countryside Transformed
"The Countryside Transformed: The Railroad and the Eastern Shore of Virginia, 1870-1935" is a collaborative effort of the Eastern Shore Public Library and the Virginia Center for Digital History of the University of Virginia. The project has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and from the Fair Play Foundation. The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy provided discretionary funds for developing a bibliography of maps.
Copyright Information
The materials on the Virginia Center for Digital History website are under copyright.
These materials have been made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. You may reproduce (print, make photocopies, or download) materials from this website for these purposes without prior permission on the condition that you properly cite the source in all copies. (Please see the example below.)
For other uses of materials from the VCDH website (for example, commercial products, publication, broadcast, mirroring, reuse on a website, or anything else that does not fall under "fair use") we require that you contact the VCDH in advance for permission to reproduce the materials. Contact information is given below. If requesting permission to use materials from our site please be prepared to refer specifically to the information you intend to use.
Brooks Miles Barnes
Project Director
Contact
We welcome your comments and questions about the site by contacting Mr. Barnes through
Eastern Shore Public Library
P.O. Box 360
Accomac, Virginia 23301
757.787.3400
Our Staff
Project Directors
Brooks Miles Barnes
Librarian, Eastern Shore Public Library, Accomac, Virginia
William G. Thomas, III
John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities, Department of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Project Manager
Elizabeth Ladner
Graduate Student, History, University of Virginia
Programming/Website Development
Loren Moulds
Graduate Student, History, University of Virginia
Scott Gillespie
Doug Ross