HISTORY OF ALBEMARLE
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grade. The Barboursville Road ran from the beginning, mu ch as it does now. Just after the county was formed, old David Lewis was appointed Surveyor of the road from his pla ce south of Birdwood to Lynch's Ferry; at that point the Rivanna was crossed, instead of as now at the Free Bridge. This road mltst have intersected the Three Notched Road SOllie distance west of Charlottesville, the existence of which at that time had not entered the thought even of the most sagacious. The hill at the old Craven place was in all pro babi l ity always ascended where it is at present. The trade of the upper part of the county, and the adjacent section s of the Valley, being then carried on with Fredericksburg, both of these roads, and the Three Notched also as fal" as the fork at Everettsville, possessed in common the name of the Fredericksburg Road. In early times the Barboursville Road was continued down the river on the eastern side, and probably ran across the hills through the Haxall and Pantops plantations to the Secretary's Ford. When the Comt House was removed to Charlottesville, it of cou rse became the centre of the county roads. The Three Notched Road running along its main street, afforded a ready approach both from the east and the west. One outlet toward s the north was the Barbomsville Road by way of Lynch's Ferry. Another was by a connection with the Buck :M ountain Road at David Wood's old place , which was at or near the late Colonel Bowcock's. The road making thi s co nnection left the west end of High St reet, ran to tbe foot of the hill near Clay \fichie's, thence over Meadow Creek past the place recently occupied hytbe late Harvey Hull, and crossed the south fork of the Rivanna at Carr's old Ford on the Carrsbrook plantation. Shortly after another road was opened, "branching froUl the la st mentioned north of Harvey Hull' s, crossing the south fork at the Broad Mossing Ford, aud continuing thence to the Burnt Mills. The Barracks Road wa s laid out during the Revolution, and bas since been a noted way, though much deflected from its original course. It s tarted fr-om the west end of Higb - 5