“Pender People Endorse Elizabethtown Road” from the April 1, 1926 issue
of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C.
At a meeting of interested Pender county people held last
week at Burgaw the highway from Elizabethtown to Burgaw and Jacksonville was
enthusiastically endorsed, and it was decided to have a survey of the proposed
road made and costs of a topsoil dressing made. If the cost is found to be not
in excess of $1,500 per mile, a bond issue will be voted upon for the
construction of the highway.
There are two possible routes the road can take in Bladen
county, and it has not be decided which of the two will be chosen. One route is
from Burgaw to Atkinson and then to Kelly and from Kelly to Elizabethtown. If
this one is selected and the River road is also built, the County will have a
road on either side of the river.
The other proposed route is from Burgaw to Atkinson and then
by Beatty’s Bridge to Elizabethtown. Either road will open up a vast farming
area of Bladen County.
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