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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, November 27, 1936, U. s. 1 Highway Starts Campaig'n For Safety Orj^anization Wants Four-Lane Roadway Entire Distance P'rom Maine to Florida A Golfing Scene at the Southern Pines Country Club Alarmed at the national increase in automobile fatalities and injuries and determined to make U. S. No. 1 a leader in a great safety movement, officials of the U. S. No.l Highway Association met recently and re solved to make their highway the; I safest in America. This highway, America’s first, all paved, North-South route and today the only continuous Maine-to-Florida road, has already taken steps in mak ing its lanes safe. It possesses more three- and four-lane road today than any other North-South route. With this wonderful background the as sociation will open a campaign to make the entire route of extra lanes. The aim is for four-lane-highways with a center spread of grrass divid ing the lines of traffic. It is the hope of the officials of the wide-awake U. S. No.l Highway association to lesson the fast-increas ing number of accidents along Amer ican highways. The association has assumed the role as leader in this humanitarian movement. The offic ials, representing every state from Maine to Florida along U. S. No.l, have already begun their job of get ting public leaders interested in this safety movement. Scientific studies have shown that extra-lane, high speed highways are a leading immed iate solution to the problem. U. S. Highway Association con sists of members of civic and busi ness organizations in the points along the highway which runs through Boston, New York, Wash ington, Richmond, Raleigh, Augusta, Jacksonville and Miami. The execu tive meeting was attended by as sociation directors and state vice- presidents. A Former National Champion, Helen Hicks, is Putting on the 18th Green in the Finals of the An nual Women’s Mid-South Tournament, Held on this Course Each Spring. FISH HATCHERY LARGEST OF KIND IN UNITED STATES The 60,000-acre Sandhills land dem onstration project of the Resettle ment Administration near Southern Pines, will have the largest fish hat chery in the United States for the breeding of bass, braem and crappie when completed. The plant, already in partial use, is to have twenty one- acre breeding ponds, fed from Mc Kinney Lake, for which a new earth and concrete dam has been built. The game of roque is popular in Southern Pines and the Men’s Club maintains two courts which are avail, able for visiting enthusiasts of this sport. THREE SANDHILLS ROADS FEATURE LOCAL HISTORY Carthage road to Eureka is sti)' ic use. In the minutes of the County court for the recently formed County of Moore, is an order dated May term, 1785, directing Duncan Patterson to be overseer of the road from Cole’s j bridge to the Adkin (Yadkin) road, Only Sections of Yadkin, Peedee i hands t» be Hugh McDonald, Peter and Morganton Remain in Use Today TWO WERE INDIAN TRAILS H ♦♦ u a H Agnes Dorothys Beauty Shop Individualize Parker-Herbex treatments far coriecting all conditions of the hair and scalp. Zotos machineless permanent waving especially good for very fine and white hair. HELEN HARTGROVE Manager Mary Hall operators Over Hart’s Drug Store Elizabeth Fletcher Tel. 5131 lake, and then to the crossing of Drowning Creek where Coleman, no ted as one of our first road builders, had constructed a bridge over that stream. For many years this was known as Coleman’s bridge, then as Graham’s, then as Blue’s. From this river crossing the road ran almost in a straight line to the present Be- thesda Church, then to the ford of Hector’s creek, later Ray’s, and now known as Powell’s pond, whence the road wound to the present Shaw hcuse and then through Jimtown to Mill creek where it crossed another ford now submerged beneath the Southern Pines water supply pond; thence on to Eureka, Union Church, Jonesboro to Raleigh, all of this road from Bethesda to the Midland Road, and from the Southern Pines- for the construction of the first state road through the Sandhills. Tradi tion has it that this was a military road. Surely its surveyors laid its course as straight for the mountains as their somewhat inadequate knowl edge of bridge building permitted. Chapter XXX of the Laws of North Carolina, 1817, provided for a road from Fayetteville to Morgan- ton, to be laid out along the most convenient route. A supplementary act in „he following year authorized the appointment of commissioners to survey the road from Mcrganton to the line of Tennessee near Yellow Mountain, and chapter LV authorizes the overseers in Moore county to draft the inhabitants within yiree miles, and those of Cumberland county liv- (Please turn to page 7) (Continued from page 1) house, then the McMillen plantation beside a noted spring, once an Indian camp site, and for years a welcome resting place for travelers. There the road turned to the right, crossed the ford of J.es Fork, then the approximate line of U. S. route number 311 to Candor and on through Gap. Another road, not as ancient as the Yadkin or the Peedee, of which a part is still in use, was the so-called “Seal’s Road”, named for Justice Wil liam Seals and ordered laid out by the May term, 1785, Moore county court. The stretch from the Midland to the Airport and to Lakeview fol lows for the most part the lines of the old road. The Peedee Road Other settlers, principally Scotch, entering the port of Charleston cr Georgetown, and making their way to the present Cheraw, S. C. turned ; the Virginia trape of the Indians to a road through Richmond county in to the present Moore county, cross ing the Yadkin road on the ridge- top west cf Southern Pines, and on to Avent’s ferry over the Cape Fear River, and to Raleigh. Down this road during the Civil War went many a w’agon-load of corn and meal trans ported by the local folks for the troops in South Carolina. The Peedee trace entered Richmond county at the Grassy Island fcrds of the Peedee River, wound through that county to the Coieman homestead, located near the present Mossg^el years ago passed an act calling Blew, Donald Patterson, John Mc- Loud, Norman McLoud (McLeod), Archibald Black, Hector McNeill, James Ray, John Patterson. The Pat tersons all lived on or near the site of Bethesda Church, Peter Blue and Hugh McDonald south of the Pat terson, and nearer the ^)ridge: Hec tor McNeill on the site cf Pine Crest sanitarium; Archibald Black near the present forestry fire tower; James Ray near Hector's creek. It is scarce ly necessary to state that the “hands” were farm or plantation owners and used their employees, or slaves for maintenance or roads. The Old Morganton Road Frequent reference is found in old deeds and surveys, and in newer des ignations cf township lines to the “Old Morganton Road” and in South ern Pines some traces of this old highway from Fayetteville to the mountains still remain, but save for a few yards here and there it is no longer passable for any wheeled traf fic; newer roads have taken its place and stranger vehicles supplanted the patient ox and fractious mule. Per haps the wraiths of olden time linger in the silvery ribbon of the old road where it enters the sombre woodland, or crosses the ancient fords, creak ing wains full loaded with hides, or caravans of tobacco hogsheads, troop ers in blue or gray, or the hurrying carrier of the mail. To relieve the ancient Yadkin road and to facilitate the carriage of raw material into Fayetteville, and the return transportation of such commo dities as the outlying settlers could purchase in that metropolis, the Gen eral Assembly of North Carolina just R. F". F*OXTS Real E^staite and Building Oontractor Offering for sale, or to rent for the season desirable properties in the Sandhills. Three real bargains in dwellings. They will net last long. i Building estimates furnished. Telephone 5881 Southern Pines Theatre Building North Carolina ♦« u I :: a Betty’s I Hairdressing Shop / Oldest Established Beauty Shop in Southern Pines. The Latest Modes in Hair Dressing. Pennsylvania avenue adjoining postoffice Telephone 6121 a :: I ♦♦ « H ♦♦ t: H ♦♦ tx n n •» tt it •«- it ♦♦ ** II II It used to be Blue Monday but II H wash day now is one day that I can ca 11" M y Own Day si nee LAUNDRY II I,bundle,off my laundry. WONDER of wonders, though, is that the Laundry actually saves you money in the long run. And is actually easier on your clothes with the Sterilizing Sanitary Methods. More and more housewives are making this glad discovery. SOUTHERN PINES LAUNDRY CO. Telephone 6101 Southern Pines n does it bekt Highland Pines Inn M. H. TURNER Manager Season December to May (WEYMOUTH HEIGHTS) SOUTHERN PINES Tj- ^ Dining Room Service and its Cheerful Homelike Atmosphere Caters to the Requirements of those Occupying Winter Homes in the Pme Tree Swtion. The Hotel is Situated on Weymouth Heights (Massachusetts Avenue) Amid Delightful Surroundings. Good Parking Space is Available for Motorists. All Features of First Class Hotels are included at Highland Pines Inn. Best of Everything.
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