Author: Michael R. Hill
Publisher: North Carolina Division of Archives & History
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Author: Tom Poland
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 146713886X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Venture off the beaten path to forgotten roads, where a hidden South Carolina exists. Time-travel and dead-end at a ferry that leads to wild islands. Cross a rusting steel truss bridge into a scene from the 1930s. Behold an old gristmill and imagine its creaking, clashing gears grinding corn. See an old gas pump wreathed in honeysuckle. Drive through a ghost town and wonder why it died. When's the last time you saw a country store's cured hams hanging from wires? How about a vintage Bull Durham tobacco ad on old brick? Tom Poland explores scenic back roads that lead to heirloom tomatoes, poke salad, restaurants once gas stations, overgrown ruins and other soulful relics.

Author: Dawson Carr
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469628155
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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Connecting communities from Corolla in the north to Ocracoke Island in the south, scenic North Carolina Highway 12 binds together the fragile barrier islands that make up the Outer Banks. Throughout its lifetime, however, NC 12 has faced many challenges—from recurring storms and shifting sands to legal and political disputes—that have threatened this remarkable highway's very existence. Through the unique lens of the road's rich history, Dawson Carr tells the story of the Outer Banks as it has unfolded since a time when locals used oxcarts to pull provisions from harbors to their homes and the Wright Brothers struggled over mountainous dunes. Throughout, Carr captures the personal stories of those who have loved and lived on the Outer Banks. As Carr relates the importance of NC 12 and its transformation from a string of beach roads to a scenic byway joining miles of islands, he also chronicles the history of a region over the last eighty-five years, showing how the highway and the residents of the Outer Banks came to rely on each other.

Author: North Carolina State Highway and Public Works Commission
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Author: Anne Peden and Jim Scott
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467148091
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Traveling US 25 through the Carolinas today is a much more pleasant experience than it was in the 1700s. Then, the road from the Tennessee Cherokee Towns to Augusta, Georgia, was a Cherokee trading path that followed a bison trace to the navigable port on the Savannah River. Drovers came from as far as Kentucky herding hogs, turkeys and mules. Lowcountry South Carolinians traveled by stagecoach and wagon to the foothills and mountains, staying for months. The Augusta Road, Saluda Gap and Buncombe Turnpike became the Dixie Highway Carolina Division and then US Route 25 by 1931. Authors Anne Peden and Jim Scott travel the trading path and concrete highway to explore this fascinating history.

Author: South Carolina. Dept. of Highways and Public Transportation
Publisher:
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Author: Tammy Ingram
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469612984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Dixie Highway: Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930

Author: North Carolina State Highway Commission. Advance Planning Department
Publisher:
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Category : Highway planning
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: North Carolina. Division of Highways
Publisher:
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Category : Highway planning
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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