Try "A map of the State of Virginia" Herman Boye, 1825 for a more accurate
view of the roads in the time period you are investigating.

George M. Williams
----- Original Message -----
From: "marsha moses" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: old Virginia roads


> Sandy, what I am going to say is "gut feeling" not academic.....Looking
> at the WV map for your Beverly, WV, I don't think that this location was
> "on any established road".   While I don't know the area first hand, I
> can say that while raising our children we skiied at Snowshoe many
> times.  There was never a good way to go through the area that you are
> looking at.  It is IN THE MOUNTAINS.  But it seems to me that often we
> went through Elkins and then south and probably went right through the
> middle of Beverly....although I don't remember it.  You can also get to
> Snowshoe from the south going from White Sulphur ....the "hot" route for
> a while was to take 92 from White Sulphur Springs and then 39 to
> Marlington and then 219 ...I don't know why we didn't take 219 from
> Lewisburg from the beginning....
>
> I asked my husband to look at this, too...he was in charge of the
> driving back in those days...This is the way that he remembers it, too.
> The area around Lewisburg would have been a pretty established area
> quite early ....talking 1700's.  My best guess is that from Rockbridge
> County, your ancestors would have taken the best route from there to
> Lewisburg and then the routes that are now 219 up into the moutains.  I
> think that there was probably  a pretty decent trail from
> Staunton/Lexington to Lewisburg/White Sulphur very early.  Certainly
> Cornstalk and his men had no trouble traversing the route during what I
> call the Cornstalk Event of 1763 when many families were affected by
> massacre/capture in a kind of last effort by Cornstalk to rid the area
> of the white families.
>
> I have just reread all of the above and I am not sure that I have been
> entirely clear.  Don't hesitate to ask more questions if I can be of
> more help.  I was using a DeLorme Atlas of WV as I talked about the
> different routes.  Marsha
>
> bugnut wrote:
>
>>In the late 1850s, some of my ancestors moved from the Lexington/Natural
>>Bridge area of Rockbridge County, VA, to Randolph County, VA (now WV).
>>I've
>>found a map of the old "Staunton, VA - Parkersburg, WV Turnpike."  This
>>turnpike went directly through Beverly, WV, where my ancestors settled.
>>
>>If they used the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, then they had to take
>>another road, first.  I'd like to know what road (or roads) my ancestors
>>might have taken to get to Staunton,VA from the Lexington/Natural Bridge
>>area of Rockbridge County, VA.  (Today, you'd take I-81.)
>>
>>Or, did they take another road which went from Lexington/Natural Bridge,
>>VA
>>to Beverly, WV in Randolph Co, WV?  If so, what was it?  Is there a map of
>>that old road?
>>
>>Thank for you help.
>>Sandy
>>
>>
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