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This meant that corrals, livery stable, blacksmith, tool sheds, and other related support services were necessary adjuncts to these precursors of our motor hotels.
In fact, transportation, lodging, industry, and community had many synergistic relationships that were much more intimate than today. Small nearly self-contained communities grew up right along the sides of the road. One of these, the Thornton Gap Settlement was located about one mile from the eastern entrance of Shenandoah National Park on US 211. This extensive complex was researched, documented, (and due to deteriorated condition, subsequently demolished) in the 1940s by the National Park Service. The settlement included a wagon stand, an ordinary, several mills, a church, and a number of homes all arranged to take strategic advantage of their sites, literally by the side of the road. Also included were the various wagon-service accoutrements necessary at any stop, as mentioned above.
On the north side of the turnpike was the Herbert Atkins place (ca. 1800), originally a wagoner overnight stop. In what may have been one of the first anecdotes about ‘truck’ stops having good food, the Atkins place gained a reputation for excellent meals. This reputation led to stagecoach meal stops that in turn
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