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and east.
The county issued $30,000 worth of bonds to finance the Flint Hill-Chester Gap road and our board of supervisors went first-class with the ads for the first increment of $10,000. They bought space in the Sept. 26, 1910 issue of “The Financial Age,” a New York newspaper of the American Banker’s Association.
The ad appeared in a list of other bond offerings, but was also repeated in a large, eyecatching box, with bold headlines. Unfortunately, no one purchased the bonds. The bond’s terms were then changed and they were sold locally: $10,000 to a party in Front Royal; and the $20,000 portion to someone in Hampton, Va.
Started in August 1911, the Flint Hill to Chester Gap road was completed in early 1913.
What was a macadamized road? Macadamized roads were made of stone. They usually had a 30-foot right-of-way. The whole macadamized roadway was only 12 feet wide, about the size of the single lane you drive on today. After grading and ditching, a base of large stone (2-3 inches in diameter) would be laid down and pounded or rolled into
filace, followed by an upper ayer, three to five inches thick, of smaller stone (3/4” to 1 1/2” in diameter), also pounded or rolled into place.
Lastly, “fines” or a binding material would fill any voids in the top layer of stones. Sometimes, a dirt summerroad, or side-road, about 12
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