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Then you had the skyline drive put in to promote the tourist trade. There were a lot of little cottage camps.”
You can still see the remnants of some of those old cottage motel rooms on U.S. 211, west of Sperryville, just past Antique Tables Made Daily.
While tourism continued into the Depression, Estes remembered, “when WWII struck, it was like you cut a spigot off. It dried up just that quickly - no gas, no tires, no new cars.”
In the 1940s and early 1950s, Estes worked for the phone company, covering every inch of the county at various times as a lineman, running phone lines, bringing service to houses and doing sales. Before U.S. 211 was built in the 1960s, the main roads were all privately owned. Three turnpikes merged at the Sperryville Comer. Estes remembered, “you could buy those tokens at any store. There were three tollsone in Sperryville, one on the mountain and one out off what is 211 now.”
That one is still standingit’s the very old, small salt box
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