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Excerpt from Report of the Landed Property of the Buena Vista Company, 1889 The landed estate of the Buena Vista Company has been made up by the consolidation of the historic iron and agricultural lands. Of Samuel F. Jordan, deceased, known as the Buena Vista property, the Green Forest farm and the Hart's Bottom farm; all together making about acres, and forming a compact, well-shaped body. These lands are wholly in Rockbridge County, within five miles of Lexington, twelve miles of Balcony Falls, and fifteen miles of the Natural Bridge. They lie on the west flank and at the base of the Blue Ridge, and include bottom lands on North River and South River, wide foot-hills and plateaux, high spurs and outstand ing peaks, the last connected with the main Blue Ridge by saddles or cross ridges. The boundary lines of the property run for five miles along the crest of the mountain. 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 our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.