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U.S. Route 19, U.S. Route 52, Virginia State Road 603 (Cove Road) - Wythe County, Virginia, U.S. Route 21: Remnants of the old turnpike road have been used in the present day. SR 603 (Cove Road) changes from asphalt to gravel surface when it intersects the Wythe/Bland line at Little Walker Mountain.
This is an older version of the Fredericksburg and Valley Plank Road. 1860 maps show that the "old turnpike" and plank road separated. The Rockingham Turnpike crossed Swift Run Gap. Tazewell Courthouse and Fancy Gap Turnpike. Tazewell to North Carolina (1848-49 ch. 145), to use part of Cumberland Gap and Price's Turnpike Road (1849-50 ch. 141)
A detour is located 3 miles (5 km) west of here; south on VA-756 (Old Forge Rd). Pigg Creek ford: This ford is directly at the north end of VA-802. VA-802: Old Carolina Rd: 0.8 miles (1.3 km) (Another path of the "Old Carolina Rd" appears to run along the ridge just 0.3 miles (0.48 km) southeast of this path.) VA-756: Old Forge Rd: 0.1 miles (0 ...
State Route 44 followed what is now State Route 711 (Huguenot Trail and Robious Road) from US 522 at Jefferson east to SR 147 at Robious.Most of SR 711 is a Virginia Byway.The portion in Powhatan County was named for the French Huguenot immigrants to the Virginia Colony who settled the area in the late 17th and early 18th centuries to escape religious persecution in their homeland of France.
System information; Length: 57,867 mi [1] (93,128 km): Notes: Outside cities, some towns, and two counties, every road is state-maintained. These roads are split into primary and secondary State Routes, and receive different levels of funding.
Winchester Star Millennium Legacy article "The Road Most Traveled Drove Economy, Heritage" January 1, 2000; Virginia Highways Project website; Roads to the Future Scott Kozel's detailed Highway and Transportation History website with lots of information and maps of Virginia's highway system; The Valley Turnpike an historical article by Don Silvius
A portion of Carolina Road from the mid-1800s is illustrated in map form as part of Loudoun County, Virginia history. [4] Going south on the Old Carolina Road from Evergreen Mills Road at Goose Creek, one must turn right on Watson Road and follow it south to Highway 50 (the old Little River Turnpike, at Mount Zion Old School Baptist Church. The ...
Bozeman Trail from Virginia City, Montana, to central Wyoming; California Road established 1849, from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to California; California Trail from Missouri to California. Carolina Road from Roanoke, Virginia, on the Great Wagon Road through the Piedmont to Augusta, Georgia. Cherokee Trail along the Arkansas River from Indian ...