![]() ![]() “But as far as I’m concerned, these are the good old days.”Ĭopyright 2021 by WSLS 10 - All rights reserved. “There will still be people who hold on to things and say ‘the good old days are better’ - and the good old days had their pluses,” said Dellinger. “I’ve seen it go from one type of community to another type of community, and we all went through it well and adjusted to it and are happy with it,” said Dellinger.įrom integrating schools in the 1960s to the city giving up its charter and reverting to a town in 2001, Dellinger said the community has supported each other through it all. The diesel engine came about in the 1950s, and the C&O Railroad moved operations to West Virginia, leading to a population decline.īut if you ask Dellinger, despite C&O operations leaving town, Clifton Forge has persisted - and has done so graciously. Shops lined the streets, and the town became a railroad boomtown - until many shops started closing up in the 1980s. ![]() “It was a very busy place and still building, believe it or not with the Depression.”Ĭlifton Forge has a rich railroad history, with the first passenger train arriving in 1857.įrom then, the area went on to become a maintenance staple for the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) Railroad, which at one point employed nearly 2,000 people. “The railroad was the backbone, and nobody dreamed the railroad would diminish in size,” Dellinger said. 14,848 likes 1,086 talking about this 16 were here. When asked what the town was like when she first arrived, Dellinger said that despite the times, Clifton Forge was a bustling community. The Alleghany Journal - an electronic newspaper for the Alleghany Highlands, Clifton Forge, Virginia. A tractor trailer wreck on eastbound I-64 near exit 24 (DSLCC) has resulted in traffic being routed through Clifton Forge. Now 94, she’s seen the town grow and change and has been an active part of that process as a part of the Clifton Forge Women’s Club. Josephine Dellinger, the co-author of ‘Images of America: Clifton Forge,’ arrived in the town in 1939 when she was 12 years old. William Alexander owned a forge in the Rainbow Gorge near Iron Gate and named it “Clifton” after his father’s estate in Lexington. So where did the name Clifton Forge come from? 277,151 MWh Production per Capita 53.67 MWh EMISSIONS CO2 Emissions 252,046,710 kg CO2 Emissions per Capita 16,556. Before it was known as Clifton Forge, the area was a village known as Williamson after the family that owned the land in the 1820s. Glover was born Octoin Alleghany County, a daughter of the late James Michael and Mary Frances Humphries Armentrout. The town wasn’t chartered until 1906, but its history goes all the way back to the 1700s. Florence Armentrout Glover, 91, of Sunset Hill, Covington, died Friday morning in Patrick Henry Health Care Center in Yorktown. Forge lies i the high valley betweeqthe Shenandoah and Alleghany ranges in. – Nestled in the Alleghany Mountains, the small but mighty town of Clifton Forge has served as a witness to history - from two world wars to the heyday of railroads and of course, a global pandemic. survey of 200 properties within the Cibof Clifton Forge 2) to prepare an. ![]()
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