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roads, all tributary to the north-south, macadamized “State road.” The roads ran from: a point near Flint Hill to the Culpeper County line via Amissville; Flint Hill to the Culpeper County line via the Richmond Road; Sperryville to the Page County line; a point south of Sperryville to the Culpeper County line via Hawlin and Slate Mills, known as F.T. Road; Flint Hill to Rock Ford; Mt. Lebanon Church south of Woodville to Amissville via Laural Mills and Viewtown; and the road from Hawlin to Woodville.
On Nov. 24, 1919, just before State road construction projects for 1920-1921 were to be selected, a road meeting was held in Sperryville. • The State Highway Commissioner, Coleman, himself attended. Influential men from Orange, Culpeper, and especially Rappahannock County attended, including Rappahannock’s board member Wade H. Massie (Hampton District), and Henry A. Brown (Hawthorne District and Chairman).
They requested a change in a macadamized State road planned to run from Orange to Madison to Stanley and Luray in Page County. They wanted the road to run from Orange to Madison, then up F.T. Valley to Sperryville, and thence to Luray.
A little over two weeks later, Wade H. Massie, as noted in a Richmond Times Dispatch article, was Chairman of the State Highway Commission, a very influential position, and the Commission was holding public hearings on the road projects for 1920-1921. On Jan. 9, 1920, the Commission recommended, among other things, the Orange to Madison to Sperryville to Luray route. Rappahannock was to get its second State road.
Next time: The farmers versus the wealthy.
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