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The King's Highway

The new route is to be know as the King's Highway reviving an old Colonial highway rich in historic record. There is a legend that the old King's Highway led into Portsmouth about where the present Fourth street gate of the navy yard is located. From that point a long bridge is said to have once crossed the Southern Branch over to what is now South Norfolk. The new Portsmouth-South Norfolk bridge is the rightful successor of this historic bridge which stood not in the memory of man now living. The new King's Highway will follow the old Gosport and Key roads to Drivers and then over the Portsmouth-Nansemond bridge at Sleepy Hole, thence to Chuckatuck and on to Richmond.

ca 1928