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Then and now
Looking south toward Franklin just past the intersection of N.C. 116 and U.S. 441, a mid-1920s Model T Ford travels a different landscape (top photo) than exists in the same location today. Country Road Farms nursery is to the left of the modern four-lane highway that now connects Dillsboro and Franklin (bottom photo). Significant fill was added to the roadbed to moderate 441’s overall slope as it climbs up and over Cowee Mountain, making it impossible to exactly duplicate the photopoint of the earlier image, which was likely captured around 1930. Today’s four-lane road was completed during the mid-1970s with federal funds funneled into Jackson County by the Appalachian Regional Commission. – Herald file photo (top) and Herald photo by Nick Breedlove |
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