The Gettysburg and Petersburg Turnpike Company was incorporated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at the 1807 request of Adams County for "an artificial road from Gettysburg to the Maryland line".[1] The road was built to support the April 1807 Chambersburg-to-Baltimore stage line from Ralph Lashell's house in Gettysburg to sheriff Jacob Winrott's in Petersburg (now Littlestown).[1] Construction began after the October 1808 meetings on the 17th (at Winrott's) & 18th (Lashell's) "for the purpose of receiving Proposals in writing for making of said Road"[2] (the 2nd elections were in November).[3]