Talk:List of turnpikes in Virginia and West Virginia
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Unknown turnpikes
[edit]- Falmouth to Thorny Point, parallel to the railroad??
- Brandonville to Terra Alta
- Moundsville to Waynesburg via US 250, WV 891?
- Plank Road southwest from Lexington
- Plank road from Cookstown? to Culpeper; note that the plank road to Orange was on current Orange Plank Road, while the turnpike was on VA 20, and they separated again east of Chancellorsville
The Price's Turnpike and Cumberland Gap Road apparently went through Lovelady Gap (VA 619 southeast of Dryden). One possible route is:
- Cumberland Gap to Jonesville (roughly US 58)
- Jonesville to Gate City/Estillville (somehow to Lovelady Gap, then roughly US 23)
- Gate City to Lebanon (VA 71, VA 613, US 58A, US 19)
- Then US 19 and somehow to Midway
It went through Natural Tunnel State Park, but I don't know how. --NE2 10:11, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Assuming it was the same as the "Jonesville and Estillville Road", it ran via Clinchport ("mouth of Stock Creek"). --NE2 10:42, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
According to [1] page 14, it ran through Belfast Mills; thus it used 603 and 642, joining US 19 there. [2] page 3 talks about the old turnpike and the "Powell River Route" between Jonesville and Rose Hill. They chose the old turnpike ([3] page 3). According to [4] page 23 the Old Fincastle Road ran between Dot and Jonesville; [5] page 12 confirms this. --NE2 10:19, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
[6] shows turnpikes in Loudoun County. --NE2 14:27, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
An act passed December 21, 1805 authorized Lee County to place a toll gate on the road between Cumberland Gap and Moccasin Gap. An amendment passed January 2, 1807 said that they had placed it right at Cumberland Gap, and ordered them to move it east of the road south into Tennessee. --NE2 18:18, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
Other state improvements
[edit]Some of the turnpikes were built by the state. Some roads without "turnpike" in the name were also built by the state; it is unclear if all of these charged tolls.
- Alleghany and Huntersville Road
- Bath and Sir John's Run Road
- Beverly and Fairmont Road (tolled)
- Castleton and Spring Valley Road
- Clear Fork Road
- Cove Springs and White House Road
- Cumberland Road (tolled)
- Estillville and Nickelsville Graded Road
- Fancy Gap Road
- Fincastle and Cumberland Gap Road
- Fish Creek Road
- Fishing Creek and Brandonville Road
- Floyd Courthouse and Hillsville Road
- Franklin and Monterey Road
- Fredericksburg to Alexandria Stage Road
- Huttonsville and Huntersville Road
- Ice's Ferry Road
- Little Stone Gap Road
- Logan and Kanawha Road (may have been tolled?): Marmet west to Logan via WV 94, WV 3, US 119?, WV 10
- Middlebourne and Franklin Township Road
- Morgantown and Beverly Road
- Newtown and Berry's Ferry Road
- Nicholas Courthouse and Gauley Bridge Road
- Ohio River and Maryland Road
- Pound Gap Road
- Price's Turnpike and Cumberland Gap Road
- Raleigh and Boone Road
- Richlands and Kentucky Line Road (tolled)
- Richmond Road
- Shannon's and Bluffs Road
- Sistersville and Salem Road
- Skidmore's Fork and South Fork Road
- Slavin's Cabin and Summersville Road
- South Branch and Petersburg Road
- South Fork of South Branch of Potomac Road
- Staunton and Parkersburg Road
- Tazewell Courthouse and Fancy Gap Road
- Tazewell Courthouse and Richlands Road (tolled)
- Walnut Gap Road
- Wayne and Kanawha Road
- Weston and Charleston Road
There was also a Kanawha Road Company.
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