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Names
Should Be
Traditional
To the Editor:
Your July 14 editorial says that in the E-911 process the Board of Supervisors “has done an excellent job naming roads as they have been traditionally known.” In many cases that is true, but in at least one case the Board has obliterated a name that has stood nearly 250 years-and a second used at least 100 years.
For current Route 637, the Board has chosen the name “Jerico” (that’s how it appeared in the last legal advertisement, no “h”) for 4.5 miles of what has been Poe.’s Road since the 1750’s and 2 miles of old Shiloh Road (part of Poe’s Road having been removed from the public system sometime around World War II, in favor of the Shiloh Route.) Poe’s and Shiloh are the only names on the old land records and maps; Jerico never appears. Poe’s and Shiloh were legally referenced as recently as the 1971 deed from the Browning family to Edward and Miriam Harris.
Your news article reports that “residents” said the name should be “Jericho” (Jerico?). With all due respect to three relatively near neighbors, who certainly have the right to suggest any name they wish, those resident have lived on Poe’s/Shiloh Road since only 1977, 1987, and 1987 respectively. A permanent resident of our farm for more than 40 years remembers that the Jerico/Jericho name didn’t turn up until around the 1960s; it has never been used by more than a handful of people appar
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