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The Little River Turnpike was built between 1801 and 1806, and the road was a privately owned and operated toll road during the 19th century running from Alexandria to Aldie in Loudoun County, Virginia. Toll houses were placed at five mile intervals along the road for collection of fees. The road was a paved ("macadamized") road 20 feet wide.
SR 620 begins in Fairfax County at Columbia Pike near Lake Barcroft and runs southward, crossing the Little River Turnpike. It then intersects the Capital Beltway, Interstate 495. SR 620, heading westward at this point, then passes north of Burke and intersects SR 123 near George Mason University.
Lexington and Richmond Turnpike: Little River Turnpike: January 28, 1802: Alexandria - Fairfax - Aldie: Logan, Raleigh and Monroe Turnpike: Loudoun and Berlin Turnpike: 1852 [4] Just East of Purcellville - Lovettsville - Brunswick: Route 287, Berlin Tpke: Lunenburg Plank Road: May 25, 1852: Blackstone - Kenbridge - Wattsboro: VA Route 40, Plank ...
78 over Swift Run Gap (as a turnpike) 83 Little River Turnpike; 90 James River and Kanawha Road; 91 Russell and Lee Road; 1802-03. 47 South Mountain Road (as a turnpike) 76 James River and Kanawha Road (details) 1803-04. 20 Abingdon and Saltville Road (as a turnpike) 60 Little River and Snigger's Gap Road; 61 South Fork and Brock's Gap Road
The Little River Turnpike Bridge carries U.S. Route 50 (US 50) across the Little River near Aldie in Loudoun County, Virginia. The two-arch masonry bridge was built in 1826 by the Little River Turnpike Company, which built the roadway that is now US 50. The costs of the bridge were apparently shared between that company and the Ashley's Gap ...
U.S. Route 50 over the Little River 38°58′31″N 77°38′22″W / 38.975278°N 77.639444°W / 38.975278; -77.639444 ( Little River Turnpike Aldie
In 1806, the Little River Turnpike opened 34 miles (55 km) of macadamized "paved" road from Alexandria to Aldie and the Aldie and Ashby's Gap Turnpike was formed in 1810 to operate a toll road westward to the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains at Ashby's Gap. The Winchester and Berry's Ferry Turnpike extended from the Ashby's Gap to Winchester.
Aldie is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located between Chantilly and Middleburg in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States.The historic village of Aldie is located on the John Mosby Highway (U.S. Route 50) in a gap between the Catoctin Mountains and Bull Run Mountains, through which the Little River flows.