Nelson County had few roads, but farmers could ship crops to market via railroad and river prior to the Civil War
Source: Library of Congress, A map of the state of Virginia by Herman B��e (1826), updated by Lewis von Buchholtz (1859)
one white pince supplied all but eight boards used to build this side of the Saunders Brothers peach-packing shed near the Piney River
State Route 151 has become "alcohol alley" in Nelson County
seven miles of the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway route is now a hiking/biking/horse trail along the Piney and Tye rivers