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father’s house and which was the beginning of the end of the beautiful fanning country in which I lived as a boy in the ‘40s and ‘50s. I fled to Virginia in 1964 to escape all that, but it will happen here, too, if we are complacent.
The F.T. Valley Road is not ah. appropriate highway for through truck traffic. There are sharp bends, steep hills, and bends and hills combined.. It becomes still less suitable for such traffic as it winds its way through Madison County.
I can almost hear Mr. Moore, now: “There is nojplan for straightening or four-laning Route 231.” Right, Bob, but you might just build a parallel road — a sort of a “connector?”
It’s interesting to learn that some of those who were so strongly in favor of the four lanes stand, now, quaking in their boots at the prospect of a bypass. And I was unpleasantly surprised by Pete Estes’s offer to sell his house on the comer to VDOT, “if they paid enough for it.” So much for historic Sperryville. That old house is certainly one of the most interesting in a town that has been declared something on the order of a “scenic village.” If that house goes, there might just as well be a bypass, for what the town would remain as a tourist attraction. Surely there are tourists who come to see, not simply to buy!
But, I don’t think the effect of a bypass on Sperryville is really the most important point. Some say it would help the town by getting the trucks out. Others think it would hurt the town by diverting the tourist traffic. Whether or not the F.T. Valley Road becomes a recognized major artery, there will always be some
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