The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-10
BETTER HIGHWAY TO THE
MOUTH OF JAMES RIVER
Country People Start Movement for
Auto Rond From Richmond
to Newport News.
THE cuIcKAuoMINY ASSOCIATION
Highway building Organization In
spircd by Rural School Tenchcr-'ro
Make Route Shorter md Better.

The teacher of the MI. Pleasant
School near Roxbury, Va, several
weeks ngo announced to some of her
patrons that the next league meeting
would be good-roads meeting, and
invited all TO be present From this
meeting movement developed which
promises not only to improve some of
the roads IN the noighborhood OF Mt
Pleasant School. in Charles City Ccun.
~. but the movement has spread into
portions of three counties.
1t promises TO develop one certain
piece OF road that will be Of interest
20 several hundred Richmond people,
including agents from wholesale
houses lumbermen. club men. Chicka-
hominy fishermen and tourists. in adj
dillon TO being great benefit and
convenience TO the natives along it's
way.
This work is yet in it's infancy,
in a little more than two weeks. So
many substantial and energetic pco-
pie have become interested that, as n
result, all the people are aroused
along this road.
On tire night OF May meeting of
Charles City and New Kent people
was held in the Masonic Building at
Providence Forge. The work of aid
ing and improving the roads was taxi
Ell up In a systematic way. An or
ganization was formed. to be known
as the Chickahominy Highway Asso-
citation, with the following oficers
Fred S. Book. president. Roxbury. Va.
w. p. Tunstall chairman board of SUI
pervisors New Kent County, treasurer
ItoXbury. Va, and r. l.. Mountcastle
secretary. Providence Forge. Va.
NEW ROAD FROM RICHMOND
DOWN TO NEWPORT NEWS
The work that this association is
undertaking for this year will be de-
voted chiefly to one piece of road. The
plan is to begin at the Hcnrico line,
,, in Charles City County, three miles
west OF -Roxbury; thence across the
long bridges to Mountcastle by way
of Providence Forge Windsor Shades,
Walkers and Diascund. where it joins
4 good dirt road to Toano, Williams
burg and on to the macadamiZed road
into Newport News.
The starting point on the Henrlco
line. three miles west of RoXbury. can
he reached by four different roads
from Richmond. viz: the Darbeytown
Road. the Fort Lee Road. the Seven
Pines Road and the New Market Road:
the latter. leading by Curtis Neck. being
the longest route. Tho difference in
the distances between the Darbeytown
Road. the Fort Lee Road and the Seven
Pines Road is not over one and one
half miles, but undoubtedly the best
road during bad weather Is the Seven
Pines Road, for the reason that 1t is
nearly all macadamized to the Hcnrico
line. and Will be completed by the
middle of the summer.
From the Henrico line to RoXbury
the road is in fair condition for au-
tomobiles now; from Roxbury to
Providence Forge. the road is in bad
condition, hut IS being improved at
this time by private subscription. aid
cd by the Board of Supervisors
BIG WORK Dy
DETERMINED PEOPLE
This work is no small undertaking,
hut tho people are not going to be dis
couraged, showing their Willingness to
aid with their money and work. The
Chickahominy Association is asking all
who are interested In n better road and
n shorter route from Newport News
to Richmond to aid I'm this worl. with
their money and labor.
One hundred dollars was raised by
the people In the neighborhood of Rox-
bury and from n few Richmond tour
lists. aided by like amount from the
supervisors. and the hid places In the
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