The Springdale news., 1915-06-04
WILL "OLD WIRE ROAD"
 BE 4 NATIONAL HIGHWAY?

1 gave tAe following history Of the I"Old W're Road" which will be of intere-t to our people for the pro posed road would pass through Rog CTS.
 Every possible convenience of ithat day and time was brought about l to enable the federal forces to make progress and keep posted on the doirgs of the Confederates, who was very active n this section In 1862 the United States had constructed 1 from Rolla, Mo, via Lebanon, Marsh field. Springfield, down Wilson creek, Crane creek, by Camp Bliss Hollow, Mcdowell, Gassyiile, Keetsville HOW Washburn, No. and on to Cross Hol- lows, soath= =of= Rogers, Midtown east ot Lowell Fayetteville, Van Buren and It. Smith, Ark, telegraph line to enable the Federal government to keep in touch with everything that was going Oh. The Confederates would put the Federals to lots of trouble by cutting the telegraph wire, causing them to have to send out q force of repairers that they kept in Gassville all the time for the purpose. Sometimes the Confeder- ates would attempt to capture these line repairers, and of all the running you ever heard of those telegraph wire repairers would do in getting Iback to Cassvi1le, and then a bunch of soldiers would hike out after those confederates, who had gone to safety, by the time the federals got to the lplace where the Confederates were last seen.
 Probably they had wire tappers at that day and time that afforded the confederates source of in formation that they could not other wise get that time messages were taken off telegraph machines on paper slips by different dots, and the operators were able to read them.
 After the war closed the govern. ment took down the wire and for many years afterWard the old telez graph poles could be seen along the OLD WIRE ROAD from Cassville to Springfield, and since that time this Iold road has been called the old wire road, and should be made a thorough fare from Springfield via all the ri, because there is more war history connected with this old road. than possibly any road in Southwest Mis- soari. It should be graded grayeled and made an interstate road.
 Many thousand soldiers of both sides ia that unfortunate civil war. traHersed this old read with Gen's Brown, Fremon., Blunt, McNeil, Her ron, Phelps, Bliss, Schofield, Totten and others of the federal forces. and Gems Price. Coffee, Rains, Hindman, Parsons, Slack and others of the con federate army.-Rogers Democrat
 The "Old Wire Road" mentioned , in the above comes into Springdale, and cuts through the heart of the city. It is still known by old settlers as the "Old Wire Road" and comes into Springdale from Cross Follows, by the country home of l.. l.. Hill, thence southwest to the intersection of Mill street, at the residence of L.. X. Smith, thence south to Johnson street, crossing the creek as Mill street does today; thence west on Johnson street, crossing Main and Blair; thence turning south into Z Shiloh street. coming into Emma Ave nue at the residence of J. P. Denver i; thence west out Emma Avenue, to the intersection of Thompson street, here it made an angle, going through , what WAS then timber, across to the road running by the MeQuaid property, and on across into the now main travelled Fayetteville road
 There is no doubt but what Spring dale will join i'll q movement to i'm prove this bit Of roadway, and there { are old Confederates in this sec , tion who can tell of many skirwish- ], es tha. took place on this road in i this immediate section. Not so very longg ao one of the old posts used . in the construction of the telegraph line was removed, and 1t was about the last .land-mark' of what was once important government prope , ty. but at time when the govern ment" was not so highly thought of , in this section, as it is now.