In May of 1908, the J. V. Fleming Company received a credit statement or receipt from the State Bank of Columbia.
The Bank and the Fleming Company were located in Columbia, now, a census-designated place at the confluence of the Rivanna and James Rivers in Fluvanna County of central Virginia.
Although settled by English colonists in the mid-18th century, the town was not incorporated until after the end of the Revolutionary War – in 1788…