VA-T8 Colonial Highway

Marker text: COLONIAL HIGHWAY

This is one of the oldest roads leading from the east to the Shenandoah Valley; it crosses the Blue Ridge at Snicker's Gap. The ferry right over the Shenandoah River was granted, 1766. Washington used this road many times. Some distance to the east the first aerial telegraph signals were sent from the roadside, 1868.

Virginia Conservation Commission, 1947.