Alert is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
King William County
King William County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,810. Its county seat is King William. King William County is located in the Middle Peninsula and is included in the Greater ...
,
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the East Coast of the United States ...
, United States.
It is located where
Virginia State Route 360
State Route 360 (SR 360) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. The state highway runs from U.S. Route 360, US 58 Business, and SR 293 in Danville east to US 360 and SR 344 near Scottsburg. SR 360 is the old alignment ...
crosses the
Mattaponi River
The Mattaponi River is a tributary of the York River estuary in eastern Virginia in the United States.
History
Historically, the Mattaponi River has been known by a variety of names and alternate spellings, including ''Mat-ta-pa-ment'', Matap ...
.
William Aylett and his family had several prominent warehouses and mills in the area.
Formerly, Todd's Bridge (no longer in existence), or simply Todd's, was north of Aylett. Todd's and Aylett were both mentioned in
Tobacco Inspection Act of 1730 legislation as a location for a public tobacco inspection warehouse.
Later, in 1781, Todd's Bridge provided crossing of the Mattaponi as a part of the
Washington–Rochambeau Revolutionary Route
The Washington–Rochambeau Revolutionary Route is a series of roads used in 1781 by the Continental Army under the command of George Washington and the ''Expédition Particulière'' under the command of Jean-Baptiste de Rochambeau during the ...
[http://xenophongroup.com/mcjoynt/W-RRREV.htm "After Bolling Green, the route proceeded southeast, and crossed the Mattaponi river at Todds' Bridge o longer in existence, but located north of locations identified with ‘Aylett' on the southern side of the river "]
Burlington,
Holly Hill,
Roseville Plantation, and
Zoar are listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
.
See also
*
Tom Peete Cross Tom Peete Cross (December 8, 1879 – December 25, 1951) was an American Celticist and folklorist.
Education and career
Cross did his undergraduate education at Hampden–Sydney College, receiving his B.A. in 1899. He went on to Harvard Univers ...
*
Zoar State Forest
References
Unincorporated communities in Virginia
Unincorporated communities in King William County, Virginia
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