Businesses and Organizations

Ashland, Virginia, is home to many businesses and organizations, past and present. The railroad has played a large role in commerce in this turn-of-the-century railroad town.

Ashland Theatre
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Ashland Theatre

The Ashland Theatre was not the first theater building in town. The first was built in 1931 by Douglas Halbert Covington at 301 S. Railroad Avenue. White patrons sat on the main floor and there was a balcony for African-Americans.

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