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became available for state use, some rules had to be followed. For instance, Virginia had to have a State highway system, but, unfortunately, it lacked one. To help map out the state roads, the Rappahannock County board of supervisors prepared a resolution in February 1917, favoring an “improvement by use of federal, state, and county funds of a road from Winchester by way of Boyce, Front Royal, Washington, Culpeper, Madison County, Orange, Louisa, and beyond...using such federal aid as can be secured under the recent Act of Congress.”
Our board said the road would benefit the people of northern and eastern Virginia and provide a road from the Shenandoah Valley to Richmond. This resolution was not only sent to the Virginia State Highway Commissioner, but also to the chairmen of the boards of supervisors in all of the above-noted counties, urging they pass similar resolutions.
A year later, by an act approved on Jan. 31, 1918, the Virginia General Assembly sanctioned a State highway system made up of 28 roads. Number 7 on the list was a road passing through Rappahannock County. It partially matched what the board of supervisors wished. This State road began at the West Virginia line and ran through Winchester, Front Royal, Washington, Va., to Culpeper. But, instead of continuing south through Louisa County toward Richmond, the State ran the road eastward to the Chesapeake Bay. It proceeded to Fredericksburg, then ended at a town called Reedville.
With a 28-road State highway system established, Virginia requested each county to map out its own County highway system. On Feb. 6, 1919, our board of supervisors named seven
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