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, V she had never heard the name Jerico until the controversy over the rriad name. “In all the old deeds, it’s Poe’s Road,” she said.

Richard Settle said he had lived in the county all his life and always called the road Jerico Road. He said if roads were named for historic families the Settles should nave roads around Rock Mills named for them because they had owned all the land around Rock Mills and had three family cemeteries there.

Nelson Atkins said he had been in the area as long as anyone and had only heard the name Jerico Road. He said the supervisors did not have i to follow history. “We’re making history. Leave it Jerico,” he said.

Art Smith said he works with the Amissville Fire Department which runs calls into Culpeper County. He said when Culpeper County adopted E-911 road names the department had drills to learn them.

Roger Poe said he was not asking the supervisors to use the name to preserve his family history but to preserve Rappahannock history. “The road was put in 250 years ago by our people,” he said. I

The supporters of the name North Poe’s Road had the signatures of over 75 percent of the landowners and residents on the road, but the supporters of the name Jerico Road had more ties to Flint Hill.

When everyone had had1 a say, some of them twice, Chairman Hubert Gilkey suggested that on a oneyear trial basis they divide the road where it makes a bend at the Settle’s driveway. From there to Fl'nt Hill was not part of the 'original road built by William Poe.

He said if this change in the name creates a problem for the Fire Department the supervisors will have to settle on one name. “I hope it will work; I really do,” he said.

The other supervisors agreed with that solution since the road is in Mr. Gilkey’s district.

With a lot less controversy the supervisors agreed to name a road in