Basic City, Virginia

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Basic City was an incorporated town located in Augusta County, Virginia. Formed in 1890, it was named after a process for steel manufacture purported by its inventor to be "basic" and thus cheaper. This process was to be implemented in Basic City, and gave rise to land speculation in and around 1890. When this project did not materialize, the city's real estate bubble burst and Basic City, later Basic, went into immediate decline.

In 1924, Basic City consolidated with the adjacent Town of Waynesboro, which had been formed in 1834. The new name for the town was to be Waynesboro-Basic, however some on the Waynesboro city council altered the petition to the state, naming the new town Waynesboro. Only a hand full of buildings and businesses bear the Basic name today.

See article Waynesboro, Virginia

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