Before modern highways full of asphalt and concrete and before a uniform route numbering system existed in the United State let alone Virginia, a series of named 'Auto Routes' or 'Auto Trails' blanketed the country. Some like the Lincoln Highway and the Dixie Highway were national routes maintained by coalitions that promoted and signed the trails with painted poles or stone markers. Others were well posted in one state and forgotten in another. Finally, within the state themselves were series of auto trails many named as a city-to-city route. In Virginia, one of these trails became known as the 'Seminole Trail.' The Seminole Trail would run north-south through Central Virginia from Warrenton to the North Carolina State Line south of Danville. The Seminole Trail was named by an act of the Virginia General Assembly on February 16, 1928. Today, US 29 is known as the Seminole Trail from Danville to Warrenton. Same Road; New Numbers, Early 1920's-1...
Because every road has a story.