A History of Transportation in Western North Carolina: Trails, Roads, Rails & Air

Terry Ruscin

A History of Transportation in Western North Carolina: Trails, Roads, Rails & Air
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Country
United States
Published
31 October 2016
Pages
271
ISBN
9781467137065

A History of Transportation in Western North Carolina: Trails, Roads, Rails & Air

Terry Ruscin

Traveling across the treacherous and diverse landscape of western North Carolina is a challenge historically met with human ingenuity. Mountain traces of Native Americans, dusty stagecoach routes and vital railroads lined the region. Asheville installed the state’s first electric streetcars. Intrepid young men and women continued North Carolina’s aviation legacy. The Buncombe Turnpike helped tame the Blue Ridge Mountains, allowing livestock drives to reach markets in South Carolina. Author Terry Ruscin reveals the visionaries and risk-takers who paved the way to the Land of the Sky in a wondrous examination of western North Carolina transportation history.

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