Download or read book Southern Good Roads, 1915, Vol. 11 (Classic Reprint) written by A. L. Fletcher and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Southern Good Roads, 1915, Vol. 11 There are now three motor highways into Asheville from the New york-atlanta Highway: From Charlotte through Chimney Rock section and Hickory Nut Gap into Asheville; from Spartanburg, S. Across Saluda Mountain into Asheville, and from Greenville, S. Across Paris Mountain into Asheville. Making a perpendicular ascent of 465 feet, and to cover a distance of half a mile as the crow flies, the Hickory Nut Gap Road on the Buncombe county side of the mountain, 15 miles from Asheville, winds about the face of the mountain and covers an actual distance of a mile and. A half in eight big curves or loops in or der to attain the gap of the mountain at 2850 feet above sea level, and conquering the most difficult portion of the now well known and famous asheville-charlotte highway through Hickory Nut Gap, via Rutherfordton and Shelby from Asheville to Charlotte, a total dis tance of 120 miles. Reducing the former motor distance by Greenville, S. C., of 55 miles and by Spartanburg, S. C., of forty miles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.