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The Little River Turnpike was built between 1801 and 1806, and the road was a privately owned and operated toll road during the 19th century running from Alexandria to Aldie in Loudoun County, Virginia. Toll houses were placed at five mile intervals along the road for collection of fees. The road was a paved ("macadamized") road 20 feet wide.
Lexington and Richmond Turnpike: Little River Turnpike: January 28, 1802: Alexandria - Fairfax - Aldie: Logan, Raleigh and Monroe Turnpike: Loudoun and Berlin Turnpike: 1852 [4] Just East of Purcellville - Lovettsville - Brunswick: Route 287, Berlin Tpke: Lunenburg Plank Road: May 25, 1852: Blackstone - Kenbridge - Wattsboro: VA Route 40, Plank ...
SR 620 begins in Fairfax County at Columbia Pike near Lake Barcroft and runs southward, crossing the Little River Turnpike. It then intersects the Capital Beltway, Interstate 495. SR 620, heading westward at this point, then passes north of Burke and intersects SR 123 near George Mason University.
The Little River Turnpike Bridge carries U.S. Route 50 (US 50) across the Little River near Aldie in Loudoun County, Virginia. The two-arch masonry bridge was built in 1826 by the Little River Turnpike Company, which built the roadway that is now US 50. The costs of the bridge were apparently shared between that company and the Ashley's Gap ...
78 over Swift Run Gap (as a turnpike) 83 Little River Turnpike; 90 James River and Kanawha Road; 91 Russell and Lee Road; 1802-03. 47 South Mountain Road (as a turnpike) 76 James River and Kanawha Road (details) 1803-04. 20 Abingdon and Saltville Road (as a turnpike) 60 Little River and Snigger's Gap Road; 61 South Fork and Brock's Gap Road
In 1806, the Little River Turnpike opened 34 miles (55 km) of macadamized "paved" road from Alexandria to Aldie and the Aldie and Ashby's Gap Turnpike was formed in 1810 to operate a toll road westward to the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains at Ashby's Gap. The Winchester and Berry's Ferry Turnpike extended from the Ashby's Gap to Winchester.
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Little River is a 23.4-mile-long (37.7 km) [2] tributary stream of Goose Creek in Fauquier and Loudoun counties in Northern Virginia. Via Goose Creek, it is a tributary of the Potomac River . The stream rises to the east of Marshall in Fauquier County and flows northwards along the western base of the Bull Run Mountains to Aldie , where it ...