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1933 – City Manager Seth Burnley decides to postpone work to widen the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway railroad underpass on 4th Street to 22 feet wide. After a morning conference with railroad officials, the $21,000 expense was deemed to be too much. ^[1]

2000 – Value America filed to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. In April 1999, on its first day as a publicly traded, the stock closed at $55 a share. By Thursday, the three-year-old profitless company was valued at $2.4 Billion. In 2000 stock had fallen to 72 cents.

↑ Web. 4th Street Pass Job Deferred, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, August 11, 1933, retrieved May 5, 2019.

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-*1933  &ndash; City Manager [[Seth Burnley]] decides to postpone work to widen the [[Chesapeake and Ohio Railway]] railroad underpass on 4th Street to 22 feet wide. After a morning conference with railroad officials, the $21,000 expense was deemed to be too much. <ref>{{cite-progress-lindsay|title=4th Street Pass Job Deferred|url=https://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2644404/view#openLayer/uva-lib:2644405/2661/3869.5/3/1/0|author=|pageno=|printdate=August 11, 1933|publishdate=August 11, 1933|accessdate=May 5, 2019}}</ref>
+*[[1933]] &ndash; City Manager [[Seth Burnley]] decides to postpone work to widen the [[Chesapeake and Ohio Railway]] railroad underpass on 4th Street to 22 feet wide. After a morning conference with railroad officials, the $21,000 expense was deemed to be too much. <ref>{{cite-progress-lindsay|title=4th Street Pass Job Deferred|url=https://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2644404/view#openLayer/uva-lib:2644405/2661/3869.5/3/1/0|author=|pageno=|printdate=August 11, 1933|publishdate=August 11, 1933|accessdate=May 5, 2019}}</ref>
 *[[2000]] &ndash; [[Value America]] filed to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. In April [[1999]], on its first day as a publicly traded, the stock closed at $55 a share. By Thursday, the three-year-old profitless company was valued at $2.4 Billion. In [[2000]] stock had fallen to 72 cents.