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Thornton Gap or Chester Gajp was not good economics for outsiders.
VDOT did not exist in 190(| nor did its forerunner, tli* Virginia State Highw;r\ Commission. Anything dealing with the county's roads wqs controlled by the Virgin?. General Assembly. All through the late 1800s and early 1900s. every two years or so, a customized Road Act for each^of certain counties was promulgated by the politicians in Richmond. Rappahannock County received its fair share.
Maintaining, altering, or opening new public roads, or building new bridges according to the latest Road Act was .-en~ ous business. A significant portion of a taxpayer's* taxes went toward roadwork. It was about equal to the money spent on schools. A Road Act lot Rappahannock County, passed on March 6, 1900. provides a good example of how the system worked. In brief, each of the then-six Magisterial Districts (Wakefield, Hampton. Piedmont, Stonewall. Hawthorne, and -Jackson i wito have a three-membe r Road Board.
A road levy (taxi was set-kw each District's Road Board, usually 10-18 cents per $10Uroi a taxpayer's real and persona! property. There was also a county road levy, - a contingency fund. Once
See LEE HWY, Page A8
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