The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-01-16

the American revolution. Kings
Mountain, where Gen. Isaac Shelby
and John Sewer struck great blow
for American Independence, when
they. with an army of hardy back
woodsmen, routed Ferguson and his
men, thus winning in a contest that
marked the turning point in the Revo-
luton, is adjacent to the Crest of
the Blue Ridge Highway. With the
building of these roads, the people of
Kentucky, Chic and Indiana will have
a direct automobile route to the scenes
made memorable by the struggles of
the pioneers, who blazed the way for
the march of civilization westward in
this country. The route will be noted
also for its scenic beauty, as it trav-
erses the Cumberland and Appalachian
ranges, passing over that portion of
the mountain where the Virginia and
Southwestern Railway passes through
the wonderful Natural Tunnel, in
Scott County, Virginia. The Bristol
to-LeXington Highway is surveyed to
pass very near this great tunnel,
which is one of the most remarks able
freaks of nature to be found in any
part of the world.
In order to accomplish this work.
Kentucky only has to do as much as
Virginia, and assuming that the Ken
tuckians will do their share of the
work with the same progressive spirit
that characterizes the Virginians, the
highway will be an accomplished fact
within the next two or three years.
Many persons laughed at the i'm
practicability of constructing the
Memphisto-Bristol highway across
Tennessee, but that road is now about
three fourths completed, while the
same spirit that prompted it, has
aroused the Virginians to the task of
constructing similar highway from
Bristol across the Old Dominion to
the national capital. The same people
are also constructing a highway from
Bristol to Bluefeld, w. Va, and the
good road enthusiasts assert that this
is the beginning of what is destined to
be the Bristol-to-Pittsburg Highway.
Leaving Bristol, the Bristol-to-Lex-
ington Highway runs nine miles
through Washington County, Virginia
which link has just been surveyed by
the state highway engineer. The
funds to build this link have been
provided by bond issue and private
subscriptions. Scott County adjoins
Washington This county has voted
bonds for the building of its link of
the new highway, and work is to be
commenced in the spring. Lee County,
which adjoins Scott on the West, has
already constructed nearly fifty miles
of the new highway. This means that
the Virginians have provided for IS of
its 90 miles OF the istol-to-Lexington
highway, extending to Cumberland
Gap.
From Cumberland Gap, Bell County,
Kentucky, has constructed macadam
road to Middlesboro, but from that
town to Crab Orchard, KY, distance
of SO miles, the highway has not been
provided for. At Grab Orchard the
highway route connects with the Ger
tral Kentucky system of turnpikes,
over which Lexington and other Ken
lucky towns may be reached.
The Observation-Disclosures Highway
Association will take up with the coun.
ty officials and with others in Kentucky
the matter of pushing this undertak.
ing to completion. 1t is believed,
judging from information recently
published concerning road legislation in
Kentucky, that that state will soon be
in position to enter more actively
into the work of road construction