Road via Vestal's Gap. Their origins and early history are
given in Harrison, _Landmarks_, pp. 466-484.

[39] Davis, _Intellectual Life_, p. 152, and A. Hulbert, _The Paths
of Inland Commerce_ (New Haven: Yale University, 1921), pp.
44-55. The situation appeared to improve little during the
nineteenth century, for in 1894 the Virginia Good Roads
Convention called the American rural roads "far below the
average" and "certainly are among the worst in the civilized
world and always have been largely as a result of permitting
local circumstances to determine the location with little or
no regard for any general system, and haste and waste and
ignorance in building." Virginia Good Roads Convention,
_Programme_ (Richmond: Stone Printing Co., 1894), p. 24.

[40] The act incorporating the Fairfax and Loudoun Turnpike Road
Company authorized construction and operation of an
"artificial road from Alexandria to the Little River." Laws,
1795, c. 31 (December 26, 1795). Shepherd's _Statutes_
(Richmond: Shepherd, 1836), I, p. 378. The successor company,
known as the Little River Turnpike Company, was incorporated
by legislation enacted in 1802 and 1803. Laws, 1801, c. 83
(January 28, 1802) and Laws, 1802, c. 52 (January 19, 1803),
Shepherd's _Statutes_, II, p. 383, 452. The extension into
Fauquier County was authorized by the incorporation of the
Fauquier and Alexandria Turnpike Company, designed to build
"an artificial turnpike road from Fauquier Court House to
Buckland farm, or Buckland town, and thence to the Little
River Turnpike road, at the most suitable point for affording
a convenient way from Fauquier Court House to Alexandria."
Laws, 1807, c. 27 (January 27, 1808), Shepherd's _Statutes_,
III, p. 379.

[41] _Alexandria Gazette_, May 23, 1809. The extension was built by
the Fauquier and Alexandria Turnpike Road Company, and was
constructed from the Little River Turnpike at Fairfax
Courthouse, through Centreville and Buckland, to Fauquier
County Courthouse (Warrenton).

[42] Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Board of
Public Works to the General Assembly of Virginia, Richmond,
1818, p. 34; 1819, p. 33; 1820, p. 76.

[43] Fairfax