This is an excerpt from the Albemarle County Road Orders, by Nathaniel Pawlett, research historian for Virginia DOT. During the summer of 1746 several road orders were issued for roads on the extremity of the giant county Albemarle then was. Although not within the compass of this study they are mentioned here to show the sometimes unlikely places in which information on a given area may lie. One of these was for a road from Beard.s Road .on the Ridge between Appomattox and Willis.s. to Albemarle Court House. Beard.s Road refers to the present Route 636, which runs across the southern part of present Buckingham County on the ridge above the Appomattox River. The next order called for a road from Nicholas Davis.s Plantation at the Blue Ridge Falls to be brought to the Slate River Mountains. Davis was located near Eagle Eyrie in present Bedford County, and this road ran from there across Campbell County, skirting the later site of Lynchburg, to connect with existing roads near the Slate River in present Buckingham County. Although this area was only within Albemarle a few years, that lying in Buckingham from 1744 to 1761, and that in Bedford and Campbell 1744-1754, it is obvious that anyone writing on the early development of these counties, their roads and institutions would have to give close attention to surviving Albemarle records. end quote This is just another indication that much of the northern portion of early Bedford/Campbell was once in old Albemarle/Goochland counties, not Brunswick or Lunenburg. Edwin