Blanton & Pleasants
and Cartersville on The James
in the News

Some of the articles that have appeared in the Virginia press.

"Bridge Loss Strangling Hamlet"
by Monte Basgall, Times-Dispatch Staff Writer
Richmond Times Dispatch, July 12, 1972

Spanky piloting the Raft

Spanky pilots the Cartersville Ferry

"Bridge, Plaque Dedications
Highlight Cartersville Day"

Farmville Herald, May 15, 1974

 

"Cartersville store damaged in Fire"
Powhatan Today, April 12, 1990

 

Korean War Memories Are Sill Vivid
by Rob Chapman
The Farmville Herald, Friday August 18, 1995

J.A. Ransone, Garland Blanton, Jr. and Gordon Miller
J.A. Ransone, Garland Blanton, Jr. and Gordon Miller

 

Cartersville
"Friendliness helps small town thrive"
"People keep small-town values alive in Cartersville"
"Willingness to help defines town"
"Family pleased with move from city"

By Overton McGehee
Richmond Times Dispatch, Sunday, December 2, 1990

 

Families Forge an Institution
by Rob Chapman
The Farmville Herald, Friday October 1, 1999