[Themes: commerce, transportation]
[United States
Congress, House, Journal of the House of
Representatives of the United States
at The Second Session of the Fifteenth Congress (Washington, 1818), p. 79; entry for December
10, 1818:]
On Motion of Mr.
Barbour, of Virginia,
Resolved, That
the committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, be instructed to inquire into
the expediency of altering the post route leading from Price’s, in Louisa
County, Virginia, to Charlottesville, so as to begin at said Price’s, and to
pass from thence along a road called Ross’s Road, til it strikes the Mountain
Road, up that road, to the store of Nicholas I. [sic] Poindexter & Co.;
thence, along a road called the lime tract, into the three notched road, at a
place called Dobbs’s.
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[Richard Peters, ed., The
Public Statutes at Large of the United States of
America, from 1789 to March 3, 1845… 3 (Boston, 1856), pp. 503,
505, 508:]
CHAP. LXXII.—An Act to alter and establish certain
post-roads.
…
In Virginia….
…
That the
post-road called the Three Notched
Road, from Richmond
to Milton,
shall pass by Price’s store, N. J. Poindexter & Co’s. store, and Dobbs’s
store.
…
APPROVED March 3,
1819.
