J.T. McCabe, T.P. Nash, M.R. Griffin and Dr. J.H. White motored to Point Harbor, the extreme end of Currituck County, a few days ago, and all four report a delightful trip. The State Highway from Sligo to Point Harbor is almost completed and as they say, is almost a boulevard. Speaking of the trip Mr. McCabe said:
“Lower Currituck is truly a wonderful country. I am reliably advised that that portion of Currituck County form Coinjock to Point Harbor is the most thickly populated rural community in North Carolina. There are no large farms but it supports and large and prosperous population. This is due to the small truck farmer. Observing the map you will notice that it is a long, narrow peninsula, stretching Southeastward to within five miles of the Ocean shore.
“Lower Currituck is truly a wonderful country. I am reliably advised that that portion of Currituck County form Coinjock to Point Harbor is the most thickly populated rural community in North Carolina. There are no large farms but it supports and large and prosperous population. This is due to the small truck farmer. Observing the map you will notice that it is a long, narrow peninsula, stretching Southeastward to within five miles of the Ocean shore.
“Point Harbor, which is the extreme end of the point of Currituck County, is about 54 miles from Elizabeth City and what impressed me mostly was the outstanding need for a road which would serve as a short cut and eliminate much of this distance. This could be done, I am told, by the construction of a road from Belcross to Coinjock. It is 12 miles from Belcross in a due East course and it is 22 miles form Belcross to Coinjock by the present route via Shawboro, Sligo, and Currituck Court House. Thus, by the construction of this short cut 20 miles would be eliminated in a round trip from Elizabeth City to Point Harbor, or Coinjock or any point South thereof.
“In connection with a modern hotel in Elizabeth City, this proposed short cut would be a tremendous factor in that it would permit the winter sportsmen to stop with their families at the Elizabeth City hotel and inasmuch as they are not permitted to shoot wild fowl each day in the week, on these law days the tourists and sportsmen could spend their time pleasantly upon the golf links at our Country Club.
“From the viewpoint of the Elizabeth City merchant, the road would be equally as valuable in that it would enable the people from Dare County to leave home after breakfast, spend the day in Elizabeth City, shopping or attending to other business, and return by bus line to Point Harbor, thence by boat to various points in Dare County in time for early supper. Such a road would also make it possible for residents of Dare County to receive and read today’s news today by means of our daily newspaper.
“It is my own opinion that this road is of such importance as to justify the active interest of the three counties concerned, Currituck Camden and Pasquotank.
“Apart from the advantages which I have named, Point Harbor is a veritable playground. I know of no spot more inviting. It is ideally situated for an annual community gathering and certainly nothing is more conducive to community interest than an annual meeting of this kind.”
From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Saturday evening, August 8, 1925
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