Comments on: Map it! an exciting new locoogle feature! http://www.locohistory.org/blog/albemarle/2007/04/08/map-it-an-exciting-new-locoogle-feature/ One faces the future with one's past — Pearl S. Buck Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:49:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jeff Lavezzo http://www.locohistory.org/blog/albemarle/2007/04/08/map-it-an-exciting-new-locoogle-feature/#comment-288 Jeff Lavezzo Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:52:59 +0000 http://www.locohistory.org/blog/2007/04/08/map-it-an-exciting-new-locoogle-feature/#comment-288 Hi there. Thanks for the map. It's great. I wanted to comment on your Rio Road pin. Around 1990 I was visiting Charlottesville and asked a friend who'd lived here his whole life about the origins and pronunciation of Rio Road. His answer was that it had nothing to do with river in Spanish but that it was what was left of the old Route 10. The explanation was that the road signs used to say "R10". Have you heard this version of the story? Jeff Hi there. Thanks for the map. It’s great.

I wanted to comment on your Rio Road pin. Around 1990 I was visiting Charlottesville and asked a friend who’d lived here his whole life about the origins and pronunciation of Rio Road. His answer was that it had nothing to do with river in Spanish but that it was what was left of the old Route 10. The explanation was that the road signs used to say “R10″. Have you heard this version of the story?

Jeff

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