Tidewater in 1907 -- World Record?

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Was this before or after the long curve around Lake Ponchartrain was built?  It is supposed to be the longest continuous curve in the world.

EdKing
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      What is said to be the longest curve in this county, and probably any other country, is on the Tidewater in Montgomery county, Va.  The road makes this curve at what is known at the horse shoe bend on New River, and it reaches from two miles west of Toms Creek to Prime, a distance of five miles and a half.

  Bluefield Daily Telegraph
  August 8, 1907

  [The mouth of Toms Creek is at Whitethorne (MP 287.7) so the west end of the curve according to the article would be MP 289.7, which is about across the river from Cowan on the N&W.  Five miles and a half east of that point would be MP 284.2, which is present-day Pepper, where it appears there used to be the junction of a spur leading into the Radford Arsenal.  Could Pepper have been known as Prime?]

  Gordon Hamilton




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