The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-04-13
MOVEMENT STARTED FOR ROAD OVER
CASHUA FERRY
A NECESSITY FOR THIS SECTION
No Way of Crossing the River EN-
cept ut Cheraw-Many Prominent
business Men Interested in the
Movement for Bridge.

Florence. April 10. - Special:
There is TO be a movement started
soon looking to the erection of a
cause way and steel bridge over the
great Pee Dee River near what is
known as the Cashua Ferry. some
fourteen miles Northeast of Flor
ence, SO that vehicles and autOmo-
pile drivers might be able to travel
the Eastern section of the State
more readily and rapidly.
The necessity for such cause
way and bridge has been felt for
very many years, i'll fact it is hard
to understand why such move
ment has not been started up long
since
Several years ago there was
bridge over Pee Dee at Society Hill,
but il was owned by stock COM
pany and foliage was never suffi-
clent for the upkeep and it was fin
ally allowed to rot and decay until
IT soon became unsafe, so that fin
ally the government declared il
unsafe and dangerous to navigation
and such portions of il as extended
over the main run OF the river had
to be pulled down, the freshet of
1908 did the rest and now there is
no evidence hardly that a bridge
ever spanned this powerful stream
at that point
The only bridge over the great
Pee Dee is the one at Cheraw and
had 1t not been that the freshet
swept it away and the people final
ly come together and voted a free
bridge, Cheraw to-day would prob
ablyably be without vehicle and au-
tomobile access TO Marlboro county.
from which it draws a large per
I
Leaving Cheraw there is no way
of crossing Pee Dee river at any
point by vehicle, other than ferry
ing. There are several ferries, how
ever, but not one OF them in such
shape as will permit the transport
ing of vehicle or an automobile
except at great danger and risk of
life and property and many times
not at all, for the approaches to
these ferries are such as to make
| II impossible at times to reach the
flat that is used for ferrying.
Leaving Cheraw for the mouth of
the river there are the following
ferries, Cashua ferry, Mars Bluff
ferry and Alisons ferry, only three
and each of these merely make
shifts for a ferry
The movement that will be start
ed soon will be to get the four
counties bordering on or adjacent to
/ the river, Darlington, Florence.
Marlboro an5 Dillon counties. to
vote bonds in an equal amount for
such a sum as will be needed, af-
ter proper survey has been made
and estimates submitted, to build
suitable and substantial causeway
through the swamp from hillside to
hillside and strong and sub..antial
steel bridge over the river at a.
point near Cashua ferry, or near
what is known as the pocket" on
Pee Dee.
1t is reliably stated that this will
be the most convenient and best
point TO build the causeway and /
the one that will be the shortest /
route through the swamp.
AT this point the counties of Dar-
lingtOn and Florence on the West .
side Of the river run together and .
Marlboro and Dillon counties touch .
near the same place on the East
side Of the river.
At this point is where the scout .
ing party of the Columbia Record
with Mr.. ID. H. Winslow crossed the
river last summer by the means of .
block and tackle and done some
very hard stunts" getting up the
the tall cypress trees as a stay for
the guy ropes to pull up" with. .
This was a most perilous undertak- /
ing on the part of the scouters but |
II saved rs mile drive up TO Che |
raw and back to rech Florence from !
Dillon which is by q straight line
only about 80 miles.
party, last summer, left here !
for trip to Dillon in an automo- !
bile and was compelled to drive to |
Cheraw so miles, thence to Dunbar
70 miles, thence to Little Rock 10
miles, thence to Dillon miles,
making total of 109 miles to get
there and a like number returning
or 2lS miles drive instead of 65
miles had the bridge been in posi-
tion across Pee Dee at Cashua Fer
ry or thereaboGt.
IL is proposed to get public |
meeting at one of the four towns, |
darlington, Bennettsville, Dillon or
FLORENCE early in the summer at
winch time the supervisors and the |
boards OF commissioners of the
four counties together with all our
people who are either directly or
indirectly interested in this move |
ment TO come together and rub !
heads" and see what might and
what can De done in the way of get |
ting a highway opened up across /
this bold and dangerous stream and |
thereby permit the people os East /
ern Carolina as well as others to
become neighbors and instead of
distant friends and acquaintances.
Among those who it is stated are
heartily in favor of such a move
ment are the following well known
business men and farmers of the
four counties:
Senator Tom Rogers, Col. Knox
Livingston, Hon. John l.. McLaurin,
DR.. ]. L. Napier, the Rogers, the
Mcaurins, the Meddlins, the Straun-
tons and others OF Marlboro coun-