Andy Ratlips Wrote:
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> ghngggg Wrote:
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> > Andy Ratlips Wrote:
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> > > The old Beverly mill. Its still there but the
> > Gulf
> > > station is gone. You can see it today from
> > > westbound I-66 after Haymarket but before the
> > > Plains on your right hand side.
> >
> >
> > The old building that housed the gas station is
> > still there...at one time, it housed a small
> > "curio" type shop, maybe in the 60's before 66
> was
> > cut through.
> >
> > This shows rt 55 before 66 was cut through, Rt
> 55
> > still parallels 66 from Gainesville to
> Strasburg.
> > Cool old country road.
> >
> > As a matter of fact, until the early 2000's, in
> > the town of Plains on rt 55, you could still
> see
> > signs for Dulles Airport "that way", which
> > predated rt 66.
>
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> There is still one of those old signs left. Well,
> I saw it about a year ago anyway. I think it's in
> Marshall just east of Belvoir road on rt 55.
>
>
http://www.alpsroads.net/roads/va/va_55/
Make that two, as one more survives on westbound Little River Tnpk prior to Old Columbia Pike.
https://goo.gl/maps/DLnvtf5RTwE2