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person opposed the plan.
• In 1973, the U.S. Department of the Interior refused permission for a four-lane highway through the Shenandoah National Park.
• In June 1974, a second public meeting was called, to consider the dual-laning of Rt. 211 between Washington, Va., and a point approximately 3l/z miles east of the Page-Rappahannock County line, that is, to just inside the Park boundary to the west of Sperry ville.
The Highway Department presented two .options to the community of Sperryville: to bypass the town by one of three possible routes, or to dual-lane the highway right through the town.
An organized group of 45 people, calling itself the Sperryville Community Group, presented strong arguments against both options, citing their goal of keeping Sperryville “as quaint and rural as possible,” as well as their concern that a bypass would cause undue hardship to the local, tourist-dependent business community.
Following this meeting, the Highway De, partment decided that plans for dual-laning Rt. 211 beyond the north fork of the Thornton River (at approximately the location of the Rt. 211/Rt. 1003 intersection to the east of Sperryville) would “be held in abeyance until sometime in the future.”
• The current, working plan calls for duallaning of the 4.2 miles between the western end of the Washington bypass and the north fork of the Thornton River. Construction of this seg
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