Talk:List of turnpikes in Virginia and West Virginia

Latest comment: 17 years ago by NE2 in topic Unknown turnpikes

Unknown turnpikes

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  • 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)Reply

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)Reply

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)Reply


[6] shows turnpikes in Loudoun County. --NE2 14:27, 6 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

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)Reply

Other state improvements

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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.

There was also a Kanawha Road Company.