Tazewell_Courthouse_and_Fancy_Gap_Turnpike

List of turnpikes in Virginia and West Virginia

List of turnpikes in Virginia and West Virginia

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This is a list of turnpike roads, built and operated by nonprofit turnpike trusts or private companies in exchange for the privilege of collecting a toll, in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia, mainly in the 19th century. While most of the roads are now maintained as free public roads, some have been abandoned.

For the modern turnpikes, see Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike and West Virginia Turnpike.
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    Scheel, Eugene M. (2002). Loudoun Discovered, Communities, Corners & Crossroads, Volume Two, Leesburg and the Old Carolina Road. The Friends of the Thomas Balch Library. p. 134.
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    Fauquier and Alexandria Turnpike
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    Archaeological Investigations
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    Scheel, Eugene M. (2002). Loudoun Discovered, Communities, Corners & Crossroads, Volume Five, Waterford, The German Settlement, and Between the Hills. The Friends of the Thomas Balch Library. p. 18.
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    Leslie, Louise (1995). Tazewell County. The Overmountain Press. ISBN 9781570720314.
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    Destination
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    "The Virginias: A Mining, Industrial and Scientific Journal, Devoted to the Development of Virginia and West Virginia". 1885.
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    Rose, C.B. Jr. (1976). Arlington County, Virginia: A History. Arlington Historical Society, Inc. p. 75.
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