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"The Calcium-Sulfide Corporation was given a charter on February 13, 1929. The plant, manufacturing Cal-Mo-Sol fungicides and insecticides, was built in East Damascus near the Douglas Bridge."

"In the fall of 1945, after World War II ended, expansion of the Damascus Lumber Corporation, owned by the Lincoln Furniture Company of Marion, began."

"Outside of the church organizations the first clubs formed in Damascus were for young people. About 1915, or soon after, Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls were organized."

"In November 1930, Mrs. Mildred Wright Dungan called a meeting of other teachers who were interested in forming a study and service club. The name Au Courant Book Club was given to the organization."

"In 1920, when action was taken by interested citizens to begin the building of a new school, Mr. and Mrs. Backer gave the town the lots for the school site and the athletic field (Backer Park).

Contemporary accounts of the shift in Damascus from an industrial, extraction-based economy to an ecotourism-based economy.

"With the aid of an ESEA Title II grant, Mrs. Elaine Duty, librarian at the John S. Battle High School in Washington County, Virginia created a Southern Appalachian Collection of over 500 titles in the categories of general works, philosophy,…

"With the aid of an ESEA Title II grant, Mrs. Elaine Duty, librarian at the John S. Battle High School in Washington County, Virginia, created a Southern Appalachian Collection of over 500 titles in the categories of general works, philosophy,…

"James Fields, a building contractor who also operated a brick kiln and factory, built this house for his own residence in 1858."
Nanci King, "Places in Time" p. 35

"George V. Litchfield and Robert S. Bekem owned the lots in 1858 when the present building was built for the Exchange Bank of Virginia. Designed as a combination bank and residence, the western side of the building had a separate front entrance, iron…