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By Don Audette
Rappahannock News Writer
Picking up the thread of the evolution of roads in the county, in the 1910-1920 period we find Rappahannock opening new public roads, building new bridges, issuing bonds for permanent road improvements, and definitely making use of state-aid. It was also when the county road system took a north-south orientation rather than an eastwest orientation.
The first step in the northsouth highway system was a 7.7 mile long macadamized (stone) road from Fodderstack Road in Flint Hill to the county line at Chester Gap, the county having voted for such on April 23, 1910. The reason? To meet a similar road being built from Front Royal. The goal was better access to the Virginia Midland Railroad in that town.
Rappahannock County was the main source of trade for Front Royal and the railroad served as the shipment point for our county’s cattle, farm produce, turkeys, etc, to markets mainly to the north
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