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Identifier: southerngoodroad1914varn (find matches)
Title: Southern good roads
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Varner, Henry B North Carolina Good Roads Association
Subjects: Roads Roads
Publisher: Lexington, N.C., Southern Good Roads Pub. Co
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
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before, it isa highway that actually benefits the two adjacent coun-ties perhaps more than the county through which thelink itself happens to pass. There is perhaps no roadin North Carolina that has been backed by more en-thusiasm and generosity than this Hickory Nut Gaproad. Several sections have made considerable sacri-fice to raise what was considered their part of the mon-ey needed to supplement the work of the convicts andseveral men have been tireless in their efforts to raisesubscriptions for this work. To the untiring endeav-ors of Dr. M. H. Fletcher of Asheville is due the factthat the funds have been available to carry on thiswork from month to month. While the larger propor-tion of the money has been raised in Asheville, yet theFairview section of Buncombe county and the peopleall along the route from the Gap to Rutherford county,and in the Chimney Rock section of Rutherford coun-ty, have added their part to the road fund. While it is an expensive road to build yet the work
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Looking: down Broad Rivar toward Chimney Rock on the Hickory Nut Gap Highway June, 1914 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS 15 itself has been done very cheaply, and every dollar thathas been raised for the road has been spent, it is be-lieved, in the most economical \va3^ for the best interestof the road. Those who have passed over that portionof the road that is completed are warm in their praise Fig. 5,—A bridge on the Hickory Nut Gap road built by convicts of the work done, and one prominent state official ask-ed if we were not bnilding too good a road. The Hick-ory Nut Gap road is a state road, built by state con-victs under the supervision of a state department; and,when completed, it is believed it will be one of thefinest pieces of road in North Carolina and built ascheaply as any mileage of road. Governor Craig in speaking of this highway stated:It will not only be of benefit to Asheville and Char-lotte and all the territory adjacent to the highway, butit will mean a great deal to the enti

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