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I forgot to share these at the beginning of February. We were on the Snickersville Turnpike. There is a short history if you click on this link.
In part, it reads:
“Snickersville Turnpike has been a setting of great significance to our nation’s history. While still a land surveyor for Lord Fairfax, George Washington traveled this road over Snickers Gap and often spent the night along the Shenandoah River, where Edward Snickers kept an inn and operated a ferry.”
I couldn’t see the property that is guarded by the stone lions. I have mentioned before but whenever we come across these large gates, I often wonder who lives at the end of the long driveway. The properties are often hidden by either hills or trees. I found another photo of this gate entrance last year in May. If you would like to see previous drives along the Snickersville Turnpike, you can click on this link.
We passed a man on his own Sunday Drive. The closest I came to identifying this old car was a 1930 Ford Model A Station Wagon which you can see at this link. The website belongs to the St. Louis Car Museum in St. Louis, Missouri. In part it read, “Ford faced competition after the unrivaled success of the Model T and had to update and improve their next design to be more convenient for the driver and still efficient for production. Ford introduced the Ford Model A in late 1927 to be sold as the 1928 models.” and “He sold almost 5 million units in its span from 1927 to 1932.” Also, "2,848 Woody Wagons were built in 1930."
There are other forms of transport on this road.
The historical markers are always interesting.
Not too many photos today as we went for a shorter drive than we normally do.
