This marker stands in Charlottesville's Downtown Mall. It tells part of the story of U.S. 250, which become Ivy Road and Rockfish Gap Turnpike west of town, then changes names again and again on it's way to West Virginia and Ohio.Three Notch'd Road
Also called Three Chopt Road, this colonial route ran from Richmond to the Shenandoah Valley. It likely took its name from three notches cut into trees to blaze the trail. A major east-west route across central Virginia from the 1730s, it was superceded by Route 250 in the 1930s. Part of Jack Jouett's famous ride and the Marquis de Lafayette's efforts to prevent Gen. Charles Cornwallis from obtaining munitions occured along this road. Today West Main Street and part of University Avenue approximate the Three Notch'd Road's original course through present-day Charlottesville.
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