Ancient Toll Roads

So I was thinking of creating a page about old Virginia turnpikes... at least the ones in my local area. I looked on Wikipedia and found an exhaustive list of them, but scant information otherwise. It's interesting how many of the turnpikes were built 150-200 years ago, and the roads generally still follow the same alignment and many of them still have the same name (e.g., Leesburg Pike). But some of them don't... the Charles Town and Berryville Turnpike is better known as Route 340 these days. The Leesburg and Aldie Turnpike is Route 15.

There was a Leesburg and Point Of Rocks Turnpike Company, incorporated on February 17, 1898, with the purpose of building a turnpike road from Leesburg to the Point of Rocks bridge (probably following present-day Route 15). Apparently there was a toll gate on the Leesburg end somewhere. I should check my old maps and see if I can find its location. James Head obliquely mentions the turnpike in his 1908 book History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County Virginia.

Also, I'm recently amused by the Fake Berryville Pike. That certainly deserves a page of its own at some point.

—Xydexx