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VOLUME XLI. FRANKLIN, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1926 " NUMBER FIVE.
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..It takes but a glance at the high
Avay map of North Carolina to im
press the excellent advantages, as to
highway transportation, which Ma
con county possesses, Her position
in this respect is undoubtedly the best
of any county in the whole of West
ern North Carolina, with the excep
tion of . Buncombe.
The AthevIHc-Franklin-Atlanta
Highway.
Most important to the tourist, at
least, 'of all the roads of Macon
county is the Asheville-Franklin-At-lanta
highway-short route from the
south to the mountains. The road
enters the state fourteen miles south
of Franklin and leads by Franklin
on to Dillsboro, where .it connects
with the central highway.
With the exception of two miles in
Macon and six miles in Jackson coun
ty, this road has been paved to DiIIst
boro. It is expected that the foad
will be finished by next July.
After reaching Dillsboro on the
road to Asheville the traveler follows
the Central Highway, N. C Route 10,
the great "main street of the state.
The s t r e t c h from Dillsboro to
Waynesville, now an excellent all
weather road, is within the year to be
concreted. The remainder of the
Franklin-Asheville road has already
been, paved. , - ,
By next summer, therefore, the
traveler may cover the entire distance
from the Georgia line to Ashcvnle on
aft unbroken stretch of concrete
Nor is that all. Arrangements have
been made and the contract is to be
let for'paving of the portion of the
Ashe'ville-Atlanta highway through
Rabun county Georgia. Habersham
is soon to follow suit. When these
Georgia counties have completed theiir
work the Asheville-Atlanta-Franklin
highway will be a spleiu'.id hard sur
faced highway from Cornelia, whence
the road to Atlanta is in splendid
shape to Asheville a tourists dream
of over one hundred and twenty-five
miles.
And what a road it will be Curving
gently on splendid grades from Cor
nelia in the Habersham, within thirty
minutes the traveler has reached the
Tallulah Falls, that 'great scar in na
ture's face carved out by the Tallu
lah. river, the splendid lakes of the
tremendous development of the Geor
gia Power company. Within another
hour they have reached Rabun Gap
where the waters divide so imprecep
tily as to be unnoticed, those on the
one hand flowing to the Atlantic, on
the other down through the gorge
aand glen to mingle with the great
Father of Waters.
Within two hours the tourist is
within Macon county Franklin, ly
ing in the valley of the Tennessee
with the great Nantahala on the west
less than an hour away while on the
other side lies the CoWee range
Reaching Franklin the tourist must
ifceds stop. He could not , pass un
heeded this wonderful region. He
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View of Macon County' Link of Atlanta-Frankiin-Asheville . Highway.
finds hotels of the best trout streams
within a short drive, muskellungc
fishing within an easy walk, Lake
Emory swimming boating golf
rest recreation.
Leaving Franklin the tourist skirts
LakeEmory and rapidly climbs on
sweeping curves up the Cowee range
through the Cowee Gap, on up the
Tuckaseegee Valley, across the migh
ty Balsam range, down the beautiful
valley of the Pigeon to Asheville,
For years the heat racked tourist!
from the south has had to drive from'
Atlanta to Greenville and then to
Asheville. From Atlanta to above
Greenville he has traveled for a dis
tance of nearly, two hundred miles
through the monotonous flatness of
Georgia and South Carolina dust.
That day will be goac upon the com
pletion of the Ashevillc-Franklin-At-lanta
highway. Within 30 minutes
after leaving Cornelia, he is in the
mountains, the long, hot dusty trip is
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,At the inner portal of Western
North Carolina stands Macon coun
ty and Franklin. .
Franklin to Bryton City.
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thirty miles away, extends one of the
most wonderful scenic highways in
Eastern America; This is N. C. route
286. For a distance of twenty miles
from Franklin this road follows the
valley of the Tennessee river, at times
rkinir far- abnvt it as ., it ". twite its
way between the mountains. It then
turns sharply across the Cowee range
and down to the valley r f the Tuck
aseegee where, near Bry ;on City, it
conneets with the. Cent .1 Highway
on the west. '
From Bryson City eastward to Syl
va the Central Highway, Route 10, is
paved. By leaving Franklin on route
286, thence to. its connection with
route 10 near' Bryson, thence to Dills
boro on route 10 and back to Frank
lin on the Asheville-Franklin-Atlan-ta
highway, the tourist is able to
make a triangular drive of around
seventy-fiye miles, over splendid road
through a country unsurpassed for
sheer scenic beauty. This trip may
be compared with any of its length
in the state with no fear of loss. .
N. C. Rout 28.
Returning from Hendersonville and
Brevard on the east, through the
Sapphire country around Toxaway. t
on through Cashiers Valley to High
lands, the highest incorporated town
ip eastern America, down the Culla-
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