The Road That Shouldn't Exist: Lavender Bundles and a Secret Trace
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The Road That Shouldn't Exist: Lavender Bundles and a Secret Trace
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A dry scent of lavender marked a road that doesn't appear on any deed or survey - nineteen bone-dry bundles tied with brown cord, arranged along a hand-laid stone margin on a gravel cut absent from maps going back to 1819. How can a lane be physically present, used for centuries of funerals, and yet exist nowhere in the legal record?
In this episode, we trace how a utility worker's tablet image and a folklorist's archival find reopen a vanished route's history, following funeral entries, a minister's 1872 letter, and a misbound gravedigger's logbook to the question of who deliberately erased a road from the record and why.
Person: Rhonda Taylor
Person: Cheryl Barrett
Date: September 2019
Location: Harlow Township, western Virginia
Event: 163 funeral processions recorded 1841-1936
- 19 bundles of dried lavender tied with brown cord were found along the stone margins.
- Rhonda Taylor had 11 years with the utility cooperative when she discovered the unmarked gravel road.
- The first complete survey of Harlow Township in 1819 shows no trace of the road.
- The Harlow South Cemetery gravedigger's logbook records 163 funeral processions between 1841 and 1936, all taking the Passing Lane.
- A letter dated September 1872 by Methodist minister Elias Vought references "the old south trace below the Chambers acreage" and a burial procession dispute.
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