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iitue tramc in tne i^us ana 1950s, as VDOT had abandoned Rediviva Road. Everyone was using Route 211. Diane Bruce, who grew up nearby, remembers riding her bike up and down Rediviva Road, splashing through mud puddles. She and John Anderson were buddies in going through the trash that was thrown off the bridge. The county had no dump, so people would drive up, toss stuff over the railing, and pull away. Need a brass bed frame, find one in the stream. John Anderson’s father finally had to put up a No Dumping sign.
Kids, though, looked for “treasure” in the trash. Diane Bruce tells of finding a 1956 silver cup engraved by the Rappahannock Hunt. She still has it. Kids checked the trash for empty bottles to take to nearby stores. Two cents for a pop bottle and three cents for a beer bottle bought you an excellent five-cent candy bar.
You could fish off the bridge with a pole, hook, and worm, or
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