Discussing the building of a highway from Winston-Salem to Roanoke, Va., two Greensboro citizens in Danbury yesterday stated that in case this road is built, Guilfoprd County, assisted by State Highway Commissioner J. Elwood Cox, will, in their opinion, put a hard-surface road from Greensboro to Madison and tap the Roanoke-Winston-Salem road there in order to catch travel between northern points and Florida.
By building such a road, it was stated, tourists going south would not only have the most direct or shortest route, but would have hard-surface all the way from Madison to the Southern Carolina line.
The attention of the Greensboro citizens was called to the fact that the route from Winston-Salem to Roanoke, now also being discussed, which leads through Stokes, Patrick and Floyd counites, is shorter and can be built with less expense than the route via Madison and Rocky Mount. In fact the greater portion of this route has already been built, while the entire route is a part of the State highway systems of North Carolina and Virginia. Moreover, the Madison-Rocky Mt. highway would parallel the N. & W. railway, while the Stokes-Patrick-Henry route would open up new territory and bring much more new business to the two cities at either end of the highway.
From the front page of the Danbury Reporter, Wednesday, April 16, 1924
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