| | | Basic Furniture Co. - Basic City (Now Waynesboro), Virginia 1899 | Beautiful certificate from the Basic Furniture Co. issued in 1899. This historic document has an
ornate border around it with a vignette of a woman. This item is hand signed by the Company's President and Secretary and is over 108 years old.
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Basic City, Virginia Basic City was an incorporated town located in Augusta County, Virginia, in the United States. Formed in 1890, it was named after a process for steel manufacture purported by its inventor to be "basic" and thus cheaper. This process was to be implemented in Basic City, and gave rise to land speculation in and around 1890. When this project did not materialize, the city's real estate bubble burst and Basic City, later Basic, went into immediate decline. In 1924, Basic City consolidated with the adjacent Town of Waynesboro, which had been formed in 1834. The new name for the town was to be Waynesboro-Basic. However, apparently someone on the Waynesboro town council altered the petition to the state, naming the new town simply "Waynesboro." In 1948, the Town of Waynesboro became an independent city. However, Basic City had become one of the "Lost Towns" of Virginia. In modern times, only a handful of buildings and businesses bear the Basic name.
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