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錕斤拷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