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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.
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
Abb's Valley and Tug's Road Turnpike: February 19, 1850: Abingdon and Pattonsville Turnpike: Abingdon and Saltville Turnpike: December 28, 1803: Abingdon - Saltville: Aldie Turnpike: 1878 [1] 15 south from Leesburg to Little River Turnpike at Gilberts Corner: Route 15 (Virginia) Official name of Leesburg and Aldie Turnpike, below. Alleghany ...
Braddock Road, now designated SR 705, continues northwest to US 15 near Gilberts Corner. Braddock Road where it forms the border of North Springfield. Among the cities, towns and other landmarks traversed by SR 620 are: the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology lies near the intersection with Little River Turnpike; Annandale
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.
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 Turnpike Company. It is one of a small number of masonry arch bridges still carrying a major through road in the state.
Ohio Turnpike officials performed 136-point inspections of all snowplows at eight facilities across the state.
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 ...