Transportation
One of the oldest roads leading from the east to the Shenandoah Valley, it crosses the Blue Ridge at Snicker’s Gap. The ferry right over the Shenandoah River was granted in 1766. Washington used this road many times. Some distance to the east, the first aerial telegraph signals were sent from the roadside in 1868.
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