 The county was also divided into Barbour, Madison, Taylor and Gordon townships, named after important pre-war citizens.The agricultural economy resumed despite the loss of slave labor (6,111 slaves had lived in the county in 1860, valued at $1.5 million), with more livestock and dairy farming both because such required less physical labor and because the railroads could deliver those agricultural products to larger markets relatively quickly and cheaply.Virginia Governor James L. Kemper (1874-1878) moved from Madison County to near Orange as his term ended.