Hickey's Road

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Hickey's Road, first laid off by court order in 1749, followed this general path. Named after John Hickey, a merchant who operated a store at its western limits and peddled his wares along its length, the road stretched more than 100 miles from Halifax County, past Mt. Airy and Chalk Level in Pittsylvania, and into Chatham before proceeding westward to the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. A major thoroughfare home to many stores and ordinaries, the road played a major role in European settlement in Southside Virginia in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Department of Historic Resources, 2012

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Larry G. Aaron, Pittsylvania County, Virginia: A Brief History (Charleston: The History Press, 2009); Maude Carter Clement, The History of Pittsylvania County, Virginia (Lynchburg: J.P. Bell, 1929); Madalene Vaden Fitzgerald, Pittsylvania Homes and People of the Past (Lynchburg: H.E. Howard, 1974); Frances Hallam Hurt, Eighteenth Century Landmarks of Pittsylvania County, Virginia (Lynchburg: Blue Ridge Lithographic Corporation, 1966); Frances Hallam Hurt, An Intimate History of the American Revolution in Pittsylvania County, Virginia (Womack, 1976); Carol Baker Waugh, “Hickey’s Road,” The Pittsylvania Packet (Summer 1997)