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27524
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The Safe Bus, at one point the largest black-owned transportation company in the world, was a big part of the community it served and remains a point of pride in Winston-Salem 44 years after it closed. Many people say that segregation gave birth to Safe Bus and integration ended it.
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15933
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This article discusses the history and circumstances behind the evolution of transportation services not only in urban areas but also in smaller cities and rural regions.
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Carolina Planning
(NoCar HT 393 N8 C29x), Vol. 17 Issue 1, Spring 1991,
p67-70, il
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35503
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The Elway Ferry was the smallest one in NC in its car capacity: two, to be exact. How it loomed large enough to be in operation, with JC McDuffie as its current captain, after almost seven decades? For one, its years of operation—longer than any regularly scheduled ferry in the state. As for its importance locally, residents rely much on the only ferry twenty miles between Kelly and Elizabethtown.
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19732
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This article looks at the conditions of various overland travel routes and methods of transportation from 1763-1789 using period accounts. This includes descriptions of road conditions, river and stream crossings, east-west travel routes, ferry crossings, bridges, woodland trails, lodgings, ordinaries, inns, taverns, travel on horseback, travel by wagon, travel by carriage, travel on foot, and travel during the Revolutionary War.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 8 Issue 3, July 1931,
p239-257, f
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