The Lost 10th Street Lynchburg Va
April 6, 2009 by nannette
Filed under Downtown Lynchburg
Up until the 1920’s most of Lynchburg’s streets were dirt tracks. During the rain they were seas of mud and during periods of drought everything would be covered with red dirt.
Slowly the main streets were paved. First they were layered with sand, then covered with a base of crushed stone upon which cobbles or rough-cut stones were laid without mortar so as to absorb the excessive moisture.
Hidden in the heart of downtown Lynchburg, Virginia, between Church Street and Court Street, lies Tenth Street – a relic surviving from the middle of the 1800’s. In the 1940’s the city thought the street was too steep and too narrow to pave with expensive asphalt. Thus it became an un-restored link to the past.
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Those of us with manual transmissions would like to thank the city for letting this street remain no more than a reminder of the past. Can you imagine this with a horse and buggy??
I am sure the horses would have been out of breath as I was when I walked up it. Granted, it would be a great hill to sled down but not in an automobile when there was ice on it for sure!