Every person that is sent this email has some kind of family history tied to the famous Indian Trading area at Trading Ford, NC and Fort York Hill and historic old Rowan & Davidson County. These areas located just a few miles from Salisbury, NC are in danger of possible environmental damage due to the State of North Carolina DOT expanding Interstate 85 northbound and southbound to eight lanes. This is NOT a widening project but brand new 8 lanes of bridges. Plans for brand new bridges are being made by the DOT that will cross the Yadkin River. I am not opposed to the construction nor do I want to stop the construction. I do want to bring a heightened awareness to the NCDOT that valuable historic areas exist in the area of the "proposed new bridges". Civil War & Revolutionary War earthworks, trenches and battle remains could be present. I certainly hope that the NCDOT will make sure that public meetings are held and a committee set-up to oversee an exploratory mission to make sure these HISTORIC areas are protected and marked. After reading this email, would everyone of you hit your "reply to all" button and demonstrate your support for this concern to the emails listed. A list of email addresses are listed on the bottom just in case you need a copy. This web address has a lot of info on this area: http://home.webkorner.com/whigkid/tradingford/ PLEASE TAKE TIME TO FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. Thanks greatly, Dan Patterson Spencer, NC www.gorowan.com/salisburyprison/ Info on Prison site and York Hill www.RowanCounty.info Visual tour of Rowan County www.High-Rock.com Visual tour of High Rock Lake www.DanTana.com On-Line Travel Services Rowan County Information WebSite All Attachments are scanned with NORTON ANTI-VIRUS 2002 bocrawford@dot.state.nc.us; mmwood@dot.state.nc.us; richardmoore@dot.state.nc.us; choward@dot.state.nc.us; lsanderson@dot.state.nc.us; sjohnson@dot.state.nc.us; hjernigan@dot.state.nc.us; ddevane@dot.state.nc.us; rsheats@dot.state.nc.us; rshelton@dot.state.nc.us; cleggett@dot.state.nc.us; stanley@dot.state.nc.us; mmarbet@dot.state.nc.us; gconti@dot.state.nc.us; mayor@ci.spencer.nc.us; cwilker@salisburypost.com; mbella@salisburypost.com; editor@salisburypost.com; fdeloache@salisburypost.com; verner@salisburypost.com; news@salisburypost.com; cakins@co.davidson.nc.us; fmcclure@co.davidson.nc.us; phege@co.davidson.nc.us; rlanier@co.davidson.nc.us; rhyatt@co.davidson.nc.us; bzell@co.davidson.nc.us; nbates@co.davidson.nc.us; ghege@co.davidson.nc.us; bwilson@co.davidson.nc.us; zhanner@co.davidson.nc.us; jesse_helms@helms.senate.gov; howard.coble@mail.house.gov; bobs@ncleg.net; calc@ncleg.net; stanb@ncleg.net; johnbl@ncleg.net; hughowardla@ncleg.net; hh@ncleg.net; jerryd@ncleg.net; smbcomfort@salisbury.net; leda@salisbury.net; commissioner@co.rowan.nc.us; andrewsg@co.rowan.nc.us; asc@co.rowan.nc.us; russellbt@co.rowan.nc.us; foilr@co.rowan.nc.us; kkoutsky@wghp.com; newsradio1490@yahoo.com; dmp@dantana.com