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Title: Southern good roads
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Varner, Henry B North Carolina Good Roads Association
Subjects: Roads Roads
Publisher: Lexington, N.C., Southern Good Roads Pub. Co
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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ely, silentlyweaves, decades after decades, its strange fabric, andenlists the gentle night winds to arrange its gracefulfestoons with no apparent care or design. On, fright-ened with the perfume of the jassamine and magnolia,to New Orleans, where Jackson, in command of theAmerican forces, fought the memorable battle of NewOrleans, January 8, 1815, which settled for all timeEnglish domination and interference in American af-fairs. The first settlers of New Orleans were the no-bility and gentry of France. It is often called theParis of America. Old Creole Da.ys have beenimmortalized by the pen of Cable and King. New Or-leans is the largest cotton market in America, the sec-ond in the world. Tennessee has The Hermitage, which was pre-served bj an organization of patriotic Tennessee wo-men, and there is in the capitol grounds an equestrianstatue, a gift of the state. But there is not a monu-ment in Alabama to his memory, nor a road or trailmarked tliat Jackson went over except the one he
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Macadam Rgad, Near Decatur, Alabama October, 1911 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS t? marked himself when he jihuiteil his enlurs, April 17. wcsl. There in sunie wilderness ulade, or in the 1hie-klyW, upon Fort Tduldiise ■■ind il was named by his Inb Im-esl of the Ierliie plain, nr wheie tin piaiiies mustlowers Fort Jaidcson. Today the (oloinal Dames nf spai-lde n\\\\ Ihiwers. Ihey, like llie wild bie \\liii-li setsAlabama, are plannini; lo Iestire l-orl Toulouse, There them the exam;ile of industry, may choose their home.is a Jackson eoiint.v in Alabama, and some two yeais ii.aik the extent ol Iheir possessions, by driving slakesago Congressman Iletlin of Alabama introduced a l)ill or lihi/,inu trees, shelter their log cabin with tlie b lughsill congress asking for tlie apprijpriat mn of ^rllHMH) In and turf, ami leach the xirein soil in yield itself to theerect a monument to the niiMiKJi-y of th isi heroes who pliiui;lisliare. Ilieirs shall be the soil, theirs the beau-fell at Horseshoe lien

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