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    1. Fw: M emorial Drive
    2. Teresa Parrish
    3. i bet you all are lost. john's email came back when I tried to reply. this is what he said that prompted the other email. I am okay, really i am. TEresa: fr John:Could the Highway 67 be a misprint for Highway 6? Memorial Drive in South Waco did intersect Highway 6 as it was known before S.Valley Mills Dr.... John Hartgrove. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Teresa Parrish" <gparrish@hot.rr.com> To: "john" <vhartgrovr@hot.rr.com>; "txMcLennan Rootsweb" <TXMCLENN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 5:44 PM Subject: Re: M emorial Drive > I am incl the group in this so maybe we'll set some gray cells on fire!! LOL > the pull out map w the 1958 comprehensive plan doesn't say where or what hwy > 67 was. it shows memorial and the rd in fr of the v.a. as 'government dr'. > the map shows the proposed new shore line for the lake and what would > therefore go under.I shows Memorial running from the v.a. to valley mills > dr., like it does now. of course then it was hiwy 6. Wondered if 6 and 67 > shared the rd, like some do, and you have to go a ways before they separate > agian. I'll ask moma. > She says :"thru china springs to valley mills also to waco it used to cross > the old lake or at leaast come close to it.">> After asking her if it could > have merged with 6 for a spell she said it was likely then added: "It > crossed it somewhere along the way. If I rwmember right You would tkke Hwy 6 > towar Valley mills and somewhere along the way it split and Hwy67 went > toward China Spring then on up toward FtWorth." >> so we know it went > northward. when asked where it went southward she said: "I'm not sure. Your > granfather said that that road meandered all over the place you really had > to know where you were going on it or you would stay lost.". > Teresa > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "john" <vhartgrovr@hot.rr.com> > To: <TXMCLENN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 1:23 PM > Subject: M emorial Drive > > > > Could the Highway 67 be a misprint for Highway 6? Memorial Drive in South > Waco did intersect Highway 6 as it was known before S.Valley Mills Dr. > > George R. Diamonds store at 1501 Speight was before my time,but it was a > favorite Hamburger Cafe when I was a kid. My future wife worked there as a > curb-hop in early 50s. John Hartgrove. > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >

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