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feet wide, would be placed next to a macadamized road. Used in good weather, the dirt portion was easier on horses’ feet than the sharp crushed stone of the macadamized part.
In the county’s road system, one can almost discern when our board of supervisors made the decision to go along with Virginia’s incipient state highway system. The apparent main thoroughfare was to run north-south from Front Royal to Flint Hill to Washington to Sperryville to Culpeper. The decision point might have been as follows.
In January 1913, a bridge was proposed over the Rush River at Baggarly’s Mill ford outside of Washington, along what is now Old Mill Road Road (Route 683). There was a split-vote amongst the board of supervisors and someone from the Circuit Court had to be called upon to cast the deciding ballot. He voted for the bridge, possibly for an “improved” east-west highway aimed toward Warrenton, along the Warrenton Turnpike.
But on May 3, 1913, the county taxpayers voted for a macadamized road from Flint Hill, to Washington via Fodderstack Road, and on to Rediviva on the Covington River, where Gid Brown Hollow Road (Route 622) is now located. This was going southwest, toward Sperryville. Later, in November 1913, State convict laborers became available for use on the proposed road.
The board of supervisors accepted Virginia’s offer of the use of convicts, canceled the' Baggarly bridge, authorized bonds for the new road, took
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