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The route of the Three Notch'd Road : a preliminary report / by Nathanial Mason Pawlett and Howard H. Newlon, Jr.

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"Of the many colonial roads constructed during the eighteenth century as settlement moved across Piedmont and Southside Virginia, a few have remained virtually intact and in service as state roads over most of their length. One of the most significant of these is the Three Notch'd or Three Chopt Road, which ran from Richmond to the Valley as a main east-west route from the 1730's to the 1930's, when it was superseded by U.S. Route 250. Probably originally an Indian and game trail, various sections were gradually improved to the status of roads during the 1730's as the settlers moved into the upper Piedmont. Known first as the Mountain Road, or Mountain Ridge Road, it derived its name Three Notch'd Road from a system of marks it had received by 1742 or 1743. As early as 1737 it possessed milestones, or numbered trees, running from west to east along its route as an aid to travellers. Although the road appears on late eighteenth century maps, it can first be specifically located on the maps prepared by the Confederate Engineers, and these indicate it very nearly on its present course from Richmond to the Valley"--Abstract.

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  • Physical Description: 32 pages : digital, PDF file, illustrations, map.
  • Edition: revised
  • Publisher: Charlottesville, Va. : VTRC, [2003]

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"January 1976; revised September 2003."
Additional Physical Form available Note:
Also available as a bound printout in Genealogy.
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Available via the World Wide Web (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
Subject: Roads > Virginia > History.

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