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was there foi; a bridge over the Rappahannock River at Tapp’s Ford. The bridge and its approaches were to cost an estimated $2,000. Work was to start work in March 1941 and finish by the end of June 1941. They did not make it. The same project appeared in the next annual budget document, but now included improving the road from the bridge to Route 211. Here, there was an inked annotation that said, “Comp. Tapps Ford Br.” Tbtal cost was estimated at $2,919.83, and everything was to be done by the end of September 1941. Was the schedule met this time?
Other things have to be considered. Maybe there was more slippage. Maybe a bridge project on Route 621, to be finished by the end of 1941, took precedence. Maybe WWII, starting for the US on December 7,1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, changed things.
It also appears that the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors was having trouble with the Department of Highway’s Resident Engineer for the Culpeper District at the time. In a letter to Richmond dated Januapr 1, 1942, they said he had failed to appear when called and they had not seen him since the summer of 1941. Richmond responded by saying he would appear. And he (fid. He told the Board at their March 5, 1942 meeting that he had inspected all 96 bridges in the county, found 10 in good condition, that most others would need repair
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