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The King’s Highway designated a strip of road in colonial eastern North Carolina that parallels modern U.S. 17. It was the road that most travelers took to travel through North Carolina. This article presents what it was like to travel on this road in pre-Revolutionary times.
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31261
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Known as “The Good Roads State,” North Carolina maintains the nation’s largest state highway system. Governor Locke Craig in the early 1900s set up the first highway commission, and in the 1920s, the so-called “mud tax” spurred widespread road construction. This article presents historical and personal accounts on the finest roads in North Carolina, from the Four Mile Desert Road in Perquimans County to Tatum Gap Road outside Andrews and Robbinsville.
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32946
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They were our first “improved” highways and were the forerunners of our modern (1945) highway transportation system in North Carolina. This article takes a look at and old contract from the Fayetteville and Western Plank Road Company for the construction of a seven mile stretch or road in Randolph County.
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