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Gid Brown
road history
To the Editor:
At rhw February Board of Supervisors meeting I was given the credit/blame for Route 622 not being widened and paved like the first two miles into Gid Brown Hollow. I wrote a short piece on the advantages of keeping some of our dirt roads back in 1989 or so. The landowner that was referred to at the public meeting on the six-year road plan contacted me after she read the article.
She indicated it was a “breath of fresh air” after apparently being heavily pressured by people trying to convince her to donate the right of way so the roadway could be widened and paved through her property.
This person had been convinced to leave her farm the way she and her husband had enjoyed it for close to 50 years, long before I wrote the article. When she could no longer manage the farm after her husband passed away she donated an easement on it so the main part of the farm would be left intact in perpetuity.
She indicated to me that she did not want this highway going through her property and asked me to look into the project to see why so much pressure was being placed on her. I talked to our county and Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) officials and they indicated that the problem was with dust and a sharp corner and the rest was included because the right of way was being donated. No other road “improvements” were planned in Gid
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