Wood-Boye nine-sheet map of Virginia, showing Stafford County (1827)
Source: Library of Virginia
1) Getting Around Northern Virginia in Pre-Colonial and Colonial Days
- The Manner of Making Their Boats
- From Rolling Roads to Four-Lane Highways (Whew!)
- Compare roads and political boundaries/cultural features in:
- 1639 map
- 1751 map (look familiar?)
- 1770 map
- Fredericksburg's Beginning
- pages 3-10 ("The Colonial Period 1607-1776") of A Brief History of Roads in Virginia, 1607-1840
- pages ix-xiii ("Introduction" by Beth Mitchell for the Fairfax County History Commission) of Fairfax County Road Orders 1749-1800
2) Transportation in the Early 1800's
- The Transportation Network of Alexandria
- Alexandria Archeology: Discovering the Decades: 1800s
- The Patowmack Canal
- Alexandria Canal
- Board Of Public Works Introduction, describing maps of early transportation projects
- County And State Maps
- Building the Commonwealth
- Board of Public Works introduction
3) Read:
- Railroads of Virginia
- Map of the Virginia Railroads at the Start of the Civil War
- After First Manassas
- Manassas: A Railroad City
- The Orange & Alexandria Railroad
- Roads and Railroads in Braddock District (note planned location of Manassas Gap Railroad through City of Fairfax)
- Washington & Old Dominion Railroad: 1847 to 1968
- The Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad In The Civil War
- map of the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad
- About Herndon
- The W&OD Railroad is Heart of Herndon for 120 Years (the Great Falls Branch right-of-way sold to Arlington and Fairfax Counties is now Old Dominion Drive)
