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Wingo, III. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as one of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth century. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026amp; Co. investment banking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's principals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its assets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production company operating in Buckingham County. 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In \neach series description, there are notes about the record series overall, \ngenerally with some reference to specific materials within the series. The \ncollection primarily consists of a mixture of bound volumes and loose papers, \nall grouped and designated by folder labels and numbers.\n","Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation, incorporated in 1913, was founded through the efforts of James Turner Sloan, a major land manager and developer, and his \ncolleague Owen Robert Jeffrey, from a local mining family in Buckingham. They \nwere joined by Thomas Aubrey Yancey, who also served for many years as the \nfirm's president, and Robert Gamble Cabell, III, of Branch \u0026 Co., the firm that \nhanded much of Arvonia-Buckingham's financial and investments affairs. In fact, \nwhile operations centered in the Arvonia region of Buckingham County, corporate \nactivities were largely run out of offices at Branch \u0026 Co. in Richmond. The firm \njoined with Williams Slate Company, Inc., and LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation \nto create Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 as the marketing and \nsales arm of these three firms. For many years these firms shared a major market \nfor roofing and structural slate products, but in the mid-1980s the directors \nrecommended to the company's stockholders that Arvonia-Buckingham's assets to be \nsold and the company dissolved, which occurred in 1985. The firm remained on the \nbooks while the company pension plan was terminated and assets distributed \ndirectly or into annuities for former qualified employees. In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n","Branch and Company Records, 1837–1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n","LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834–1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n","The records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. The company remained an entity some three years beyond \nits official dissolution in order to handle the latter matter, although all its \nassets had by then been sold and all funding of activities was covered by escrow \nfunds established through the sale of those assets merged with those of the \npreviously funded pension plan.\n","Minute books cover meetings of the board of directors and stockholders of the company, and include copies of by-laws, resolutions, and inserted materials \nrelating to company operations, policy, and corporate decision-making. All \nminute books are bound but some minutes (duplicate copies) were also maintained \nloose in files by the secretary-treasurer.\n","A scattering of files created or compiled by the president of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., survive in this collection and are listed below. Gathered \nby various successive presidents, James Turner Sloan, Owen Robert Jeffrey, and \nThomas Aubrey Yancey, the files include materials also created by or directed to \nthe secretary/treasurer, Charles Evans Wingo, III. Primarily, these files \nconcern various aspects of mining and production operations.","Of particular interest in this series is an article in a 1961 issue of Mineral \nIndustries Journal entitled \"Slate in Virginia,\" which largely concerns \nArvonia-Buckingham and features a likeness of Thomas Aubrey Yancey (Folder 26).\n","Created or compiled by Robert Gamble Cabell, III, or Charles Evans Wingo, III, these files generally cover financial aspects of the company's history or \nmatters relating to stockholders or actions of the Board of Directors. For a \ntime, the firm invested proceeds from its operations in stock or United States \nTreasury bills, and some files trace the purchase and sale of those instruments \nin the 1950s and 1960s.\n","Once the Board of Directors had determined that the assets of Arvonia-Buckingham should be sold and the corporation dissolved, a series of important actions took \nplace. The sale was negotiated with Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., a subsidiary \nof Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., of Buckingham, Virginia, that appears to have \nbeen created specifically for this purpose, perhaps as a holding company. \nAlthough papers in this collection do not reveal the process, within a few years \nthose assets had been acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, a company \nthat had literally operated alongside Arvonia-Buckingham for many years and that \nhad joined with it and Williams Slate Company, Inc., in forming \nBuckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 to market and sell slate products \nfrom these various firms.","Proceeds from the sale of assets were placed in escrow, partly to fund the final \nactivities of company executives in dissolving the corporation and partly to \nsupplement the previously funded pension plan. With the dissolution of the firm, \nqualified participants in the pension plan were offered lump sum distributions \nof benefits (if they had less than $3,500 invested in the plan) or could elect \nlump-sum payments or the establishment of annuities with regular benefits \npayments. Much of the second half of this series concerns the termination of the \npension plan, management of assets briefly by State Mutual Assurance Company of \nAmerica, of Worchester, Mass., the creation of a trust to manage assets, \noversight of the plan termination and distribution of assets by the Pension \nBenefit Guaranty Corporation, and dealings of the company with the U.S. Internal \nRevenue Service. \n","(Articles of Dissolution, Unanimous Consent of Directors)\n\t","There are no restrictions.\n","Historical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. 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Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026 Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n","Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey.","English\n"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss3 Ar896 a FA2\n"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990"],"collection_title_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990"],"collection_ssim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"geogname_ssm":["Arvonia (Va.) - Commerce - History - 20th century.","Buckingham County (Va.) - Economic conditions - 20th century.","Virginia - Commerce - History - 20th century."],"geogname_ssim":["Arvonia (Va.) - Commerce - History - 20th century.","Buckingham County (Va.) - Economic conditions - 20th century.","Virginia - Commerce - History - 20th century."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"places_ssim":["Arvonia (Va.) - Commerce - History - 20th century.","Buckingham County (Va.) - Economic conditions - 20th century.","Virginia - Commerce - History - 20th century."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Charles E. 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The \ncollection primarily consists of a mixture of bound volumes and loose papers, \nall grouped and designated by folder labels and numbers.\n"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation, incorporated in 1913, was founded through the efforts of James Turner Sloan, a major land manager and developer, and his \ncolleague Owen Robert Jeffrey, from a local mining family in Buckingham. They \nwere joined by Thomas Aubrey Yancey, who also served for many years as the \nfirm's president, and Robert Gamble Cabell, III, of Branch \u0026amp; Co., the firm that \nhanded much of Arvonia-Buckingham's financial and investments affairs. In fact, \nwhile operations centered in the Arvonia region of Buckingham County, corporate \nactivities were largely run out of offices at Branch \u0026amp; Co. in Richmond. The firm \njoined with Williams Slate Company, Inc., and LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation \nto create Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 as the marketing and \nsales arm of these three firms. For many years these firms shared a major market \nfor roofing and structural slate products, but in the mid-1980s the directors \nrecommended to the company's stockholders that Arvonia-Buckingham's assets to be \nsold and the company dissolved, which occurred in 1985. The firm remained on the \nbooks while the company pension plan was terminated and assets distributed \ndirectly or into annuities for former qualified employees. In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information \n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation, incorporated in 1913, was founded through the efforts of James Turner Sloan, a major land manager and developer, and his \ncolleague Owen Robert Jeffrey, from a local mining family in Buckingham. They \nwere joined by Thomas Aubrey Yancey, who also served for many years as the \nfirm's president, and Robert Gamble Cabell, III, of Branch \u0026 Co., the firm that \nhanded much of Arvonia-Buckingham's financial and investments affairs. In fact, \nwhile operations centered in the Arvonia region of Buckingham County, corporate \nactivities were largely run out of offices at Branch \u0026 Co. in Richmond. The firm \njoined with Williams Slate Company, Inc., and LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation \nto create Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 as the marketing and \nsales arm of these three firms. For many years these firms shared a major market \nfor roofing and structural slate products, but in the mid-1980s the directors \nrecommended to the company's stockholders that Arvonia-Buckingham's assets to be \nsold and the company dissolved, which occurred in 1985. The firm remained on the \nbooks while the company pension plan was terminated and assets distributed \ndirectly or into annuities for former qualified employees. In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, 1913\u0026#x2013;1990 (Mss3 Ar896 a FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, 1913–1990 (Mss3 Ar896 a FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.\n"],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBranch and Company Records, 1837\u0026#x2013;1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834\u0026#x2013;1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material\n"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Branch and Company Records, 1837–1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n","LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834–1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. The company remained an entity some three years beyond \nits official dissolution in order to handle the latter matter, although all its \nassets had by then been sold and all funding of activities was covered by escrow \nfunds established through the sale of those assets merged with those of the \npreviously funded pension plan.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinute books cover meetings of the board of directors and stockholders of the company, and include copies of by-laws, resolutions, and inserted materials \nrelating to company operations, policy, and corporate decision-making. All \nminute books are bound but some minutes (duplicate copies) were also maintained \nloose in files by the secretary-treasurer.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA scattering of files created or compiled by the president of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., survive in this collection and are listed below. 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The sale was negotiated with Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., a subsidiary \nof Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., of Buckingham, Virginia, that appears to have \nbeen created specifically for this purpose, perhaps as a holding company. \nAlthough papers in this collection do not reveal the process, within a few years \nthose assets had been acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, a company \nthat had literally operated alongside Arvonia-Buckingham for many years and that \nhad joined with it and Williams Slate Company, Inc., in forming \nBuckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 to market and sell slate products \nfrom these various firms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProceeds from the sale of assets were placed in escrow, partly to fund the final \nactivities of company executives in dissolving the corporation and partly to \nsupplement the previously funded pension plan. 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Much of the second half of this series concerns the termination of the \npension plan, management of assets briefly by State Mutual Assurance Company of \nAmerica, of Worchester, Mass., the creation of a trust to manage assets, \noversight of the plan termination and distribution of assets by the Pension \nBenefit Guaranty Corporation, and dealings of the company with the U.S. Internal \nRevenue Service. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Articles of Dissolution, Unanimous Consent of Directors)\n\t\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. The company remained an entity some three years beyond \nits official dissolution in order to handle the latter matter, although all its \nassets had by then been sold and all funding of activities was covered by escrow \nfunds established through the sale of those assets merged with those of the \npreviously funded pension plan.\n","Minute books cover meetings of the board of directors and stockholders of the company, and include copies of by-laws, resolutions, and inserted materials \nrelating to company operations, policy, and corporate decision-making. All \nminute books are bound but some minutes (duplicate copies) were also maintained \nloose in files by the secretary-treasurer.\n","A scattering of files created or compiled by the president of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., survive in this collection and are listed below. Gathered \nby various successive presidents, James Turner Sloan, Owen Robert Jeffrey, and \nThomas Aubrey Yancey, the files include materials also created by or directed to \nthe secretary/treasurer, Charles Evans Wingo, III. Primarily, these files \nconcern various aspects of mining and production operations.","Of particular interest in this series is an article in a 1961 issue of Mineral \nIndustries Journal entitled \"Slate in Virginia,\" which largely concerns \nArvonia-Buckingham and features a likeness of Thomas Aubrey Yancey (Folder 26).\n","Created or compiled by Robert Gamble Cabell, III, or Charles Evans Wingo, III, these files generally cover financial aspects of the company's history or \nmatters relating to stockholders or actions of the Board of Directors. For a \ntime, the firm invested proceeds from its operations in stock or United States \nTreasury bills, and some files trace the purchase and sale of those instruments \nin the 1950s and 1960s.\n","Once the Board of Directors had determined that the assets of Arvonia-Buckingham should be sold and the corporation dissolved, a series of important actions took \nplace. The sale was negotiated with Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., a subsidiary \nof Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., of Buckingham, Virginia, that appears to have \nbeen created specifically for this purpose, perhaps as a holding company. \nAlthough papers in this collection do not reveal the process, within a few years \nthose assets had been acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, a company \nthat had literally operated alongside Arvonia-Buckingham for many years and that \nhad joined with it and Williams Slate Company, Inc., in forming \nBuckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 to market and sell slate products \nfrom these various firms.","Proceeds from the sale of assets were placed in escrow, partly to fund the final \nactivities of company executives in dissolving the corporation and partly to \nsupplement the previously funded pension plan. With the dissolution of the firm, \nqualified participants in the pension plan were offered lump sum distributions \nof benefits (if they had less than $3,500 invested in the plan) or could elect \nlump-sum payments or the establishment of annuities with regular benefits \npayments. Much of the second half of this series concerns the termination of the \npension plan, management of assets briefly by State Mutual Assurance Company of \nAmerica, of Worchester, Mass., the creation of a trust to manage assets, \noversight of the plan termination and distribution of assets by the Pension \nBenefit Guaranty Corporation, and dealings of the company with the U.S. Internal \nRevenue Service. \n","(Articles of Dissolution, Unanimous Consent of Directors)\n\t"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions\n"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions.\n"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eHistorical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as \none of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth \ncentury. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026amp; Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Historical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as \none of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth \ncentury. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026 Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n"],"names_coll_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"names_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"corpname_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)"],"persname_ssim":["Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"language_ssim":["English\n"],"total_component_count_is":75,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00021","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00021","_root_":"vihi_vih00021","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00021","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00021.xml","title_ssm":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990"],"title_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss3 Ar896 a FA2\n"],"text":["Mss3 Ar896 a FA2\n","Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990","Arvonia (Va.) - Commerce - History - 20th century.","Buckingham County (Va.) - Economic conditions - 20th century.","Virginia - Commerce - History - 20th century.","Slate industry - Virginia - History - 20th century.",".","Collection is open to research.\n","The records of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc. are divided into four series that reflect the overall history of the firm but are strongly focused on \nthe dissolution of the company and the termination of the pension program. In \neach series description, there are notes about the record series overall, \ngenerally with some reference to specific materials within the series. The \ncollection primarily consists of a mixture of bound volumes and loose papers, \nall grouped and designated by folder labels and numbers.\n","Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation, incorporated in 1913, was founded through the efforts of James Turner Sloan, a major land manager and developer, and his \ncolleague Owen Robert Jeffrey, from a local mining family in Buckingham. They \nwere joined by Thomas Aubrey Yancey, who also served for many years as the \nfirm's president, and Robert Gamble Cabell, III, of Branch \u0026 Co., the firm that \nhanded much of Arvonia-Buckingham's financial and investments affairs. In fact, \nwhile operations centered in the Arvonia region of Buckingham County, corporate \nactivities were largely run out of offices at Branch \u0026 Co. in Richmond. The firm \njoined with Williams Slate Company, Inc., and LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation \nto create Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 as the marketing and \nsales arm of these three firms. For many years these firms shared a major market \nfor roofing and structural slate products, but in the mid-1980s the directors \nrecommended to the company's stockholders that Arvonia-Buckingham's assets to be \nsold and the company dissolved, which occurred in 1985. The firm remained on the \nbooks while the company pension plan was terminated and assets distributed \ndirectly or into annuities for former qualified employees. In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n","Branch and Company Records, 1837–1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n","LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834–1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n","The records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. The company remained an entity some three years beyond \nits official dissolution in order to handle the latter matter, although all its \nassets had by then been sold and all funding of activities was covered by escrow \nfunds established through the sale of those assets merged with those of the \npreviously funded pension plan.\n","Minute books cover meetings of the board of directors and stockholders of the company, and include copies of by-laws, resolutions, and inserted materials \nrelating to company operations, policy, and corporate decision-making. All \nminute books are bound but some minutes (duplicate copies) were also maintained \nloose in files by the secretary-treasurer.\n","A scattering of files created or compiled by the president of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., survive in this collection and are listed below. Gathered \nby various successive presidents, James Turner Sloan, Owen Robert Jeffrey, and \nThomas Aubrey Yancey, the files include materials also created by or directed to \nthe secretary/treasurer, Charles Evans Wingo, III. Primarily, these files \nconcern various aspects of mining and production operations.","Of particular interest in this series is an article in a 1961 issue of Mineral \nIndustries Journal entitled \"Slate in Virginia,\" which largely concerns \nArvonia-Buckingham and features a likeness of Thomas Aubrey Yancey (Folder 26).\n","Created or compiled by Robert Gamble Cabell, III, or Charles Evans Wingo, III, these files generally cover financial aspects of the company's history or \nmatters relating to stockholders or actions of the Board of Directors. For a \ntime, the firm invested proceeds from its operations in stock or United States \nTreasury bills, and some files trace the purchase and sale of those instruments \nin the 1950s and 1960s.\n","Once the Board of Directors had determined that the assets of Arvonia-Buckingham should be sold and the corporation dissolved, a series of important actions took \nplace. The sale was negotiated with Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., a subsidiary \nof Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., of Buckingham, Virginia, that appears to have \nbeen created specifically for this purpose, perhaps as a holding company. \nAlthough papers in this collection do not reveal the process, within a few years \nthose assets had been acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, a company \nthat had literally operated alongside Arvonia-Buckingham for many years and that \nhad joined with it and Williams Slate Company, Inc., in forming \nBuckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 to market and sell slate products \nfrom these various firms.","Proceeds from the sale of assets were placed in escrow, partly to fund the final \nactivities of company executives in dissolving the corporation and partly to \nsupplement the previously funded pension plan. With the dissolution of the firm, \nqualified participants in the pension plan were offered lump sum distributions \nof benefits (if they had less than $3,500 invested in the plan) or could elect \nlump-sum payments or the establishment of annuities with regular benefits \npayments. Much of the second half of this series concerns the termination of the \npension plan, management of assets briefly by State Mutual Assurance Company of \nAmerica, of Worchester, Mass., the creation of a trust to manage assets, \noversight of the plan termination and distribution of assets by the Pension \nBenefit Guaranty Corporation, and dealings of the company with the U.S. Internal \nRevenue Service. \n","(Articles of Dissolution, Unanimous Consent of Directors)\n\t","There are no restrictions.\n","Historical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as \none of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth \ncentury. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026 Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n","Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey.","English\n"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss3 Ar896 a FA2\n"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990"],"collection_title_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990"],"collection_ssim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"geogname_ssm":["Arvonia (Va.) - Commerce - History - 20th century.","Buckingham County (Va.) - Economic conditions - 20th century.","Virginia - Commerce - History - 20th century."],"geogname_ssim":["Arvonia (Va.) - Commerce - History - 20th century.","Buckingham County (Va.) - Economic conditions - 20th century.","Virginia - Commerce - History - 20th century."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"places_ssim":["Arvonia (Va.) - Commerce - History - 20th century.","Buckingham County (Va.) - Economic conditions - 20th century.","Virginia - Commerce - History - 20th century."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Charles E. 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The \ncollection primarily consists of a mixture of bound volumes and loose papers, \nall grouped and designated by folder labels and numbers.\n"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation, incorporated in 1913, was founded through the efforts of James Turner Sloan, a major land manager and developer, and his \ncolleague Owen Robert Jeffrey, from a local mining family in Buckingham. They \nwere joined by Thomas Aubrey Yancey, who also served for many years as the \nfirm's president, and Robert Gamble Cabell, III, of Branch \u0026amp; Co., the firm that \nhanded much of Arvonia-Buckingham's financial and investments affairs. In fact, \nwhile operations centered in the Arvonia region of Buckingham County, corporate \nactivities were largely run out of offices at Branch \u0026amp; Co. in Richmond. The firm \njoined with Williams Slate Company, Inc., and LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation \nto create Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 as the marketing and \nsales arm of these three firms. For many years these firms shared a major market \nfor roofing and structural slate products, but in the mid-1980s the directors \nrecommended to the company's stockholders that Arvonia-Buckingham's assets to be \nsold and the company dissolved, which occurred in 1985. The firm remained on the \nbooks while the company pension plan was terminated and assets distributed \ndirectly or into annuities for former qualified employees. In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information \n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation, incorporated in 1913, was founded through the efforts of James Turner Sloan, a major land manager and developer, and his \ncolleague Owen Robert Jeffrey, from a local mining family in Buckingham. They \nwere joined by Thomas Aubrey Yancey, who also served for many years as the \nfirm's president, and Robert Gamble Cabell, III, of Branch \u0026 Co., the firm that \nhanded much of Arvonia-Buckingham's financial and investments affairs. In fact, \nwhile operations centered in the Arvonia region of Buckingham County, corporate \nactivities were largely run out of offices at Branch \u0026 Co. in Richmond. The firm \njoined with Williams Slate Company, Inc., and LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation \nto create Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 as the marketing and \nsales arm of these three firms. For many years these firms shared a major market \nfor roofing and structural slate products, but in the mid-1980s the directors \nrecommended to the company's stockholders that Arvonia-Buckingham's assets to be \nsold and the company dissolved, which occurred in 1985. The firm remained on the \nbooks while the company pension plan was terminated and assets distributed \ndirectly or into annuities for former qualified employees. In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, 1913\u0026#x2013;1990 (Mss3 Ar896 a FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, 1913–1990 (Mss3 Ar896 a FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.\n"],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBranch and Company Records, 1837\u0026#x2013;1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834\u0026#x2013;1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material\n"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Branch and Company Records, 1837–1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n","LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834–1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. The company remained an entity some three years beyond \nits official dissolution in order to handle the latter matter, although all its \nassets had by then been sold and all funding of activities was covered by escrow \nfunds established through the sale of those assets merged with those of the \npreviously funded pension plan.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinute books cover meetings of the board of directors and stockholders of the company, and include copies of by-laws, resolutions, and inserted materials \nrelating to company operations, policy, and corporate decision-making. All \nminute books are bound but some minutes (duplicate copies) were also maintained \nloose in files by the secretary-treasurer.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA scattering of files created or compiled by the president of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., survive in this collection and are listed below. 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The company remained an entity some three years beyond \nits official dissolution in order to handle the latter matter, although all its \nassets had by then been sold and all funding of activities was covered by escrow \nfunds established through the sale of those assets merged with those of the \npreviously funded pension plan.\n","Minute books cover meetings of the board of directors and stockholders of the company, and include copies of by-laws, resolutions, and inserted materials \nrelating to company operations, policy, and corporate decision-making. All \nminute books are bound but some minutes (duplicate copies) were also maintained \nloose in files by the secretary-treasurer.\n","A scattering of files created or compiled by the president of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., survive in this collection and are listed below. Gathered \nby various successive presidents, James Turner Sloan, Owen Robert Jeffrey, and \nThomas Aubrey Yancey, the files include materials also created by or directed to \nthe secretary/treasurer, Charles Evans Wingo, III. Primarily, these files \nconcern various aspects of mining and production operations.","Of particular interest in this series is an article in a 1961 issue of Mineral \nIndustries Journal entitled \"Slate in Virginia,\" which largely concerns \nArvonia-Buckingham and features a likeness of Thomas Aubrey Yancey (Folder 26).\n","Created or compiled by Robert Gamble Cabell, III, or Charles Evans Wingo, III, these files generally cover financial aspects of the company's history or \nmatters relating to stockholders or actions of the Board of Directors. For a \ntime, the firm invested proceeds from its operations in stock or United States \nTreasury bills, and some files trace the purchase and sale of those instruments \nin the 1950s and 1960s.\n","Once the Board of Directors had determined that the assets of Arvonia-Buckingham should be sold and the corporation dissolved, a series of important actions took \nplace. The sale was negotiated with Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., a subsidiary \nof Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., of Buckingham, Virginia, that appears to have \nbeen created specifically for this purpose, perhaps as a holding company. \nAlthough papers in this collection do not reveal the process, within a few years \nthose assets had been acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, a company \nthat had literally operated alongside Arvonia-Buckingham for many years and that \nhad joined with it and Williams Slate Company, Inc., in forming \nBuckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 to market and sell slate products \nfrom these various firms.","Proceeds from the sale of assets were placed in escrow, partly to fund the final \nactivities of company executives in dissolving the corporation and partly to \nsupplement the previously funded pension plan. With the dissolution of the firm, \nqualified participants in the pension plan were offered lump sum distributions \nof benefits (if they had less than $3,500 invested in the plan) or could elect \nlump-sum payments or the establishment of annuities with regular benefits \npayments. Much of the second half of this series concerns the termination of the \npension plan, management of assets briefly by State Mutual Assurance Company of \nAmerica, of Worchester, Mass., the creation of a trust to manage assets, \noversight of the plan termination and distribution of assets by the Pension \nBenefit Guaranty Corporation, and dealings of the company with the U.S. Internal \nRevenue Service. \n","(Articles of Dissolution, Unanimous Consent of Directors)\n\t"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions\n"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions.\n"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eHistorical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as \none of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth \ncentury. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026amp; Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Historical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as \none of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth \ncentury. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026 Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n"],"names_coll_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"names_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia 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