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2011 SESSION

11104221D
HOUSE BILL NO. 2475
Offered January 21, 2011
A BILL to amend and reenact the first enactment of Chapter 687 of the Acts of Assembly of 2008, relating to the "Wilderness Road: Virginia's Heritage Migration Route."
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Patron-- Nutter
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Referred to Committee on Transportation
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That the first enactment of Chapter 687 of the Acts of Assembly of 2008 is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 1. That the following route is hereby designated the "Wilderness Road: Virginia's Heritage Migration Route": U.S. Route 11 from Winchester to Bristol, then connecting with the Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail in Scott County and continuing west on U.S. Routes 58 and 23, ending at Cumberland Gap National Heritage Park in Lee County where it intersects with the Kentucky Wilderness Road Heritage Highway, and the Fincastle Turnpike and the Carolina Road spurs that branch off in Botetourt County. These roads, which went by a variety of names depending upon their location, collectively drew thousands of settlers southwestward from Pennsylvania and Maryland into and through the Great Valley of Virginia and into the wilderness of the American frontier. This designation shall not affect any other designation heretofore (including the Great Wagon Road, the Irish Tract, the Peaked Mountain, and the Great Philadelphia Road) or hereafter applied to this route or any portions thereof.

Notwithstanding § 33.1-62 of the Code of Virginia, the highway segments identified above are hereby designated Virginia byways.