Vestal's Gap Road IV

The Vestal's Gap Road was a major east-west trade and travel route. George Washington used it from 1753 to 1799 as he traveled on surveying business, for personal reasons and for military purposes in the French and Indian Wars. There ...

Vestal's Gap Road III

In 1722 Governor Spotswood's treaty with the Indians was ratified, which kept them west of the Blue Ridge Mountains and north of the Potomac River. Early settlers found the Indian trails in Loudoun County and made them into roads. Loudoun ...

Vestal's Gap Road II

The local Indians followed the paths made by the animals they sought as game and made them into regularly used trails. Archaeologists have found and investigated many sites where Indians lived along the Potomac River and the larger creeks such ...

Vestal's Gap Road I

Before man traveled this way, the wild animals that inhabited this area made a trail through the grassland and woods which they followed to reach new grazing areas. Bison and deer created and followed the path seeking fresh grass for ...

Lanesville House and Vestal's Gap Road

Lanesville House and Vestal's Gap Road

are contributing sites to the

Lanesville Historic District

and have been designated

Virginia Historic Landmarks

by the Virginia Commission on Historic Resources

and placed on the

National Register of Historic Places

by the U.S. ...

Vestal's Gap Road in the 1800s

In 1814 due to the British advance on Washington, it was deemed wise to remove the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and other valuable state documents to a safe place. They were transported across Chain Bridge into Virginia. The ...