3-Notched Road and 3-Chopt Road are all basically Rt. 250/Broad Street  
from Richmond to Charlottesville. The VA Highway and Transportation  
Research Council in Charlottesville (VDOT's think tank) had folks who  
traced the route and wrote it up. Pawlett, Nathaniel Mason & Howard M.  
Newlon The Route of the Three Notch'd Road: A Preliminary Report  
Virginia Highway & Transportation Dept. 1976 Spiral bound Black &  
white photographs.

As to the question, looking at the maps, the first leg is ambiguous as  
to whether it began where Deep Run crosses Broad or farther down Deep  
Run, but assuming that crossing, it would go along the road to Little  
Tuckahoe Creek and up the county boundary to the Chickahominy and down  
to Michams Lick. There are 3 watercourses feeding the Chickahominy in  
that vicinity: Allens Branch, Rooty Branch and Meredith Branch. An  
Allen had property along Rt. 250 in the 18th century according to Tom  
Bannister's platting of the Henrico patents. It was where the  
interchange for I-64 and Short Pump is located and then a bit west  
along Rt. 250 so I'd suggest the tavern was in the greater Short Pump  
area.

Lyle Browning


On Aug 11, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Alyson L Taylor-White wrote:

> Hi there - if it's any help, on a tour of an old house in Henrico we  
> saw a map and were told that "three notched" road was today's "Three  
> Chopt" Road. It turns into US Route 250 or what is Broad Street.   
> For fun, I went that way to Charlottesville that way one time, and  
> the old parts of Three Chopt Road winds around 250 for some  
> distance.  ATW
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eddie Barnes"  
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> Subject: Re: query about Micham? Lick Henrico County
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>
>> Hello: Does anyone have any information about Mary Allen's Tavern?  
>> Thanks! Eddie Barnes
>>
>> From: Michael Nicholls <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: 2008/08/10 Sun PM 06:05:22 CDT
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [VA-HIST] query about Micham? Lick Henrico County
>>
>> Dear all--in the Henrico County Processioning districts at the end of
>> the eighteenth century, district 14 is described as "beginning at
>> Deep Run up the three notched road to little Tuckahoe, thence on the
>> county line dividing Goochland from Henrico to the head of
>> Chickahominy swamp, down the swamp to Michams lick from thence a
>> straight line to Mary Allens Tavern on the three notched road." Can
>> anybody identify for me where Micham's Lick is, or tell me what it
>> may have been renamed? The Henrico 1819-20 maps are no help and
>> neither are the civil war era maps that I have been able to read. I
>> would appreciate any direction--Thanks--Mick Nicholls
>>
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