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Development growth in the Spotsylvania, Virginia, Courthouse area had been
at a steady and mostly stable pace over the previous 15 years or more.
All the rapid development was in other areas of the county …
… until in 2007 the long talked-about bypass and associated
residential and commercial village finally began to take shape.
The filenames of the images indicate the date and the perspective of each picture. Each filename starts with the date, in "yymmdd" format. The letters following the date indicate the orientation of the view as follows:
- B208 = View of OBB camera site on the Bypass from Business SR 208 across from the old post office building next door to and to the west of the 7-Eleven
- BFEX = Area near the Battlefield exit on SR 208.
- BFEXTV = View near the Battlefield exit toward village.
- BFEXAV = View near the Battlefield exit away from village.
- BFEXSR = View toward the side road to original SR 208.
- BR608 = View from BRAV/BRTV position toward SR 608 (Robert E. Lee Drive) junction with SR 613 (Brock Road)
- BRAV = View from Brock Road Bypass intersection looking away from the village.
- BRE1 = View of the village entrance from Brock Road at the first street from the Bypass.
- BRE2 = View of the village entrance from Brock Road at the second street from the Bypass.
- BRE3 = View of the village entrance from Brock Road at the third street from the Bypass (next is SLDR).
- BRTV = View from Brock Road Bypass intersection looking toward the village.
- OBB = Old Battlefield Blvd. (Street connecting the Bypass with SLDR)
- PACH = View from pavilion away from Courthouse area
- PAV = View of pavilion and commons, looking toward Courthouse area
- PTCH = View from pavilion toward Courthouse area
- PTCHE = View from pavilion toward Courthouse area, east side
- PTCHW = View from pavilion toward Courthouse area, west side
- RACSB = View from in front of the RACSB building
- SLDR = View from Spotslee Drive across Brock Road
- SY = View from school yard on courthouse side of the village
- SYW = (same as SY)
- SYE = View from school yard on courthouse side of the village, to include area of the Bypass east of SYW
Spotsylvania Courthouse Village Chronology in Pictures
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The Village construction chronology (most recent first):
Recommended for your viewing are the narrated tours of the new road via Fredericksburg.com (allow time for the videos to download):
No more detour for SR 608; the new road opened Thursday, January 10, 2008.
The Fredericksburg.com site has done a great job of providing video tours. Here's their general story about the road.
A driving tour from BFEXTV through BFEXSR is here.
A driving tour from BFEXSR continuing through BFEXTV is here.
A driving tour from BFEXTV through a right turn at BRAV is here.
A driving tour from BFEXTV past the traffic light in SYE through a left turn at BRAV and past SLDR, RACSB, and SYW in quick succession, and finally ending up at the original Courthouse traffic light (where all the traffic used to be choked through) is here.
A driving tour from SR 648 (Blockhouse Road) almost near the Po River through to BR608 (looking from the opposite direction) is here. This tour shows (from the opposite direction) where BRAV will tie into SR 648. It takes you through the four-way stop signs at SR 648 and SR 608 (Robert E. Lee Drive) and on past where SR 608 used to continue (about where the SUV from the opposite direction appears). The tour turns off to the right where SR 608 picks up again after being cut off by the Bypass; had they continued 1/4 mile further they would have been at BRTV. By turning right onto the near segment of SR 608, the tour ends where SR 608 joins Brock Road; and they then turn back onto the Bypass at BRTV.
Very nicely done tours. Compare the completed Bypass with the beginnings from April 2007.
The next phase in progress now is to complete the four lane expansion for BFEXAV/BFEXTV. Work on that is ongoing as of February 2008, and those videos starting at BFEXTV provide a glimpse of that work toward the early part of the videos.
The Canada geese, like those shown in September 2007 in BRTV, have made themselves at home near the drain water pond just to the westbound side of the Bypass.
The Bypass construction chronology (most recent first):
