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This was also the period of named highways, as the United States itself had no nationwide system of highways until 1925, nor a national highway numbering system until 1926. The first named highway was The Lincoln Highway, started in 1913. It eventually stretched coast-to-coast across the northern part of the United State, from New York City to San Francisco.
In May 1921, Rappahannock County’s old SperryvilleRappahannock Turnpike became part of Lee Highway, a coast-to-coast highway running across the southern part of the United States from New York City to San Francisco. The highway became an all-weather road much favored by a great many tourists.
Lee Highway in Virginia followed U.S. Route 211, which received its U.S. Highway designation in 1927 (VA 21 was dropped in 1929). Originally, Roifte 211 ran from Fairfax to New Market, VA, but it was truncated in 1984 so that it started in Warrenton. It still ends in New Market and is said to be the fourth shortest highway in the U.S. Highway system, only 58 miles long.
Thus, Rediviva Road in the early 1920s was an integral part of Lee Highway. A very tiny part for sure, but still a part of a historic national highway. And travelers going east or west on it all passed over Rediviva Road and the single-lane Covington River Bridge.
Traffic became so heavy that a new Lee Highway had to be built here in the 1920s and early 1930s, bypassing Rediviva Road and the Covington River Bridge. At first, the new Lee Highway, the current U.S. Route 211, was only two lanes wide and it went up and down across the landscape like ribbon candy. When
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