At 07:08 PM 11/19/97 +0000, you wrote: >Near the middle of the last century, various companies in North Carolina >began to construct plank roads in an effort to improved transportation. >>>>>>> The Fayetteville-Salem Plank road ran through the front yard of the house where I grew up (20 miles north of Fayetteville). I have a part of an old plank from that road as a momento. About 200 yards past my home was a spring and a campground where the travelers often spent the night. > An interesting project is to plot the route of the road on a topographical map. You will find that it followed the ridges and very seldom crossed a stream. In fact, Deep river near Gulf was the only major stream it had to cross. Does anyone know if there was a ford somewhere in that area which made crossing easier? I'm sure that is how they crossed Lower Little River just north of Fayetteville and Upper Little River SW of Jonesboro (now Sanford). The latter crossing was rather near the headwaters and thus not very big. > Good Searching - Good Finding - Good Luck! David Huffines Searching Hofheintz/Huffines/Huffhines/Hoffein/et.al. and Williamson, Wakefield, Underwood, Paisley, Sikes, Lipscomb ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange GENDEX at http://www.gendex.com/gendex/ has over 1500 databases on line