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VIRGINIA METAL AND CULVERT COMPANY
INCORPORATED

In the year 1907 a copartnership was formed between
Mr. L. C. Stewart and Mr. M. A. Quinn in Richmond
and established a firm to be known as the Virginia
Metal Culvert Company. The business of this company
was started on a very small scale and with a very
limited plant. Time, however, increased the demand
for the product marketed (corrugated culvert pipe and
sheet metal specialties) to a considerable extent which
necessitated the securing of larger quarters and a more
favorable location in 1908. Considering the railroad
facilities and others with which a location in Roanoke
would be identified, the firm decided to move its plant
to this city since which time the business has shown a
further consistent increase.

Continuous and energetic efforts and the manufacture
of a high-class culvert pipe enabled the company to
gradually increase the capacity of its plant which finally
culminated in its incorporation of $150,000 in the year
1911 as the Virginia Metal and Culvert Company, Incorporated,

with Mr. L. C. Stewart as President and
Treasurer; Mr. M. A. Quinn, Vice President, and Mr.
J. A. Maness, Secretary

While the business organized and transacted in
Richmond was decidedly confined to a small one, at the
present time the corrugated culvert pipe has gained a
national reputation and is used in every State in the
Union.