Brook Road

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According to tradition, the Marquis de Lafayette marched his colonial troops from the north into Richmond on portions of present-day Brook Road late in April 1781. Established in 1812, the Brook Turnpike Company constructed a turnpike along this route from Richmond to Dabney Williamson's tavern in the vicinity of present-day Solomons Store in Henrico County. It was one of the earliest toll roads in Virginia and it improved the transport of goods between Richmond and the northern region of Virginia. Over time portions of Brook Road, now a part of U.S. Route 1, have shifted to its current local and configuration.

Department of Historic Resources, 2004

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Brook Hill, Department of Historic Resources Archives File (43-70); John E. Damerel, “Lafayette and Cornwallis in Henrico County,” Henrico County Historical Magazine 6(Fall 1982):19-29; Harry Kollatz, “Brook Road: The Artery of Life,” Richmond: The Metropolitan Monthly, 4 (June 1996): 54-61; Louis H. Manarin and Clifford Dowdey, The History of Henrico County (Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1984), 144-145, 194-195; Samuel Mordecai, Richmond: In By-Gone Days (1860; Richmond: The Dietz Press, 1946), 304; Jeffrey Marshall O’Dell, Inventory of Early Architecture and Historic Sites (Richmond, Va.: County of Henrico), 169; H. Douglas Pitts, “Brook Hill Lives!” Henrico County Historical Magazine 2 (Fall 1978): 5-11; Records of the States of the United States, Virginia General Assembly, Session Laws 1794-1212, Film 358, Reel 4, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia; Toll House, Brook Road, Department of Historic Resources Archives File (43-243).