One enters the Anderson property from a narrow gravel track off Pruden Boulevard, venturing into a secluded place far away from any four-lane toll road in any sense.

But a toll road is set to push Alvin and Barbara Anderson from the peaceful home they say they built bit-by-bit with their own hands since 1969.

Along with some owners and occupants of about 20 other affected Suffolk properties, the Andersons will have to find a new place to live, if the planned alignment of the new Route 460 isn’t shifted.

And they don’t want to.

“Our blood and sweat is in this home,” 80-year-old Alvin Anderson said. “Our children were raised here.”

The couple’s son, Alvin Anderson Jr., lives a few hundred yards away in a house the new road could also take.

“My husband actually told me when we moved here, ‘Nobody will ever bother us back here in the woods,’” said Barbara Anderson, 70.

Jackson A. Greene, a farmer, lives near the Andersons with wife Ashley and their four children.

Greene said the road would render about 30 acres of the land the family farms unviable. The family home could also be lost.

“I’m self-employed, farming and raising cattle, and it will do away with what I do (on those 30 acres),” he said.

“It’s disappointing. I’ve got four kids I’m raising like I was raised — agriculture, outside. I did not put my family here to be 100 feet away from a four-lane highway. If I wanted to live by the road, I’d buy a house in town somewhere.”

The Greenes and Andersons both say they learned of the road’s alignment at a public hearing at Windsor High School in 2007.

They also say that contact from the Virginia Department of Transportation about the acquisition of their properties has been non-existent.

Greene said he hasn’t spoken to anyone from the department concerning his land, but that some folks have visited “surveying and testing water.”

“At this point, we’ll just have to see what they’re offering, and take it from there,” he said.

The new 460, championed by Gov. Bob McDonnell, is intended to take heavy vehicles off the existing Route 460, which would remain open, as well as allow for the rapid evacuation of Hampton Roads in the event of a hurricane or other disaster.

Three firms vying to partner with Virginia on the estimated $1.5 to $2 billion project will present detailed design-build proposals soon.

Tolls for cars for the entire 55 miles have been projected between $3.85 and $5.50.

Dusty Holcombe, deputy director of the Virginia Office of Transportation Public-Private Partnerships, said “improvements” could be made to the current alignment of the 500-foot-wide 460 corridor via integration with the Route 58 widening, another project involving right-of-way acquisition, though “nothing has been confirmed yet.”

Reaching out to property owners, other than notices about geotechnical project-preparation work, would only begin once a winning bid is selected, he said.

Property owners haven’t been approached about acquisitions, which would proceed according to Virginia and federal guidelines, because the new 460 could be built anywhere within the 500-foot corridor, he said.

“Every time that a property owner is impacted … it’s difficult for the property owner and it’s difficult for the department,” he added.

Alvin Anderson, a Cherokee Indian, says he has Native American relatives buried on land that the new 460 would pass barely far enough away from to be considered legal.

“We were just thinking of the old American belief that everybody has a right to a home, but truthfully speaking, no one has a right to a home,” he said.

“There’s not a day goes by that I don’t think about us losing our home.”