(025630) Shalf, Rosanne Groat. Ashland, Ashland: The Story of a Turn-Of-The-Century Railroad Town. Lawrenceville, VA: Brunswick Publishing Corpora, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 292 pages. Very Good+ in Fine DJ. Bottom corners slightly bumped. Signed by the author on title page. Story of a 19th-century mineral springs resort and racecourse in Virginia known originally as "Slash Cottage. " Developed by the Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company in the 1850s, the twon became the site of a Confederate cavalry training camp at the beginning of the Civil War. ISBN: 155618140X (History / US / South)