Finding Forgotten Roads
Jim Lewis and other local historians publish booklet about old Hunter Mill Road Corridor
People have come from near and far to see Jim Lewis give Civil War tours of the Hunter Mill Road Corridor; the areas of Vienna, Oakton and Hunter Mill Road that were important in work and in battle in the 1860s is a vast history Lewis knows well. But Lewis, a member of The Hunter Mill Defense League, recently realized that the location of the old roads running through the area—many of which are long buried in woods and backyards—were less well known. Along with fellow local historian Charlie Balch and cartographer Kenneth Jones, Lewis began to locate those roads, a project culminating in the release of the book "The Forgotten Roads of the Hunter Mill Road Corridor," a 36-page publication of photographs, maps and stories. Reporter Max …
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