Since it became necessary for the big steam shovel to demolish part of the old Danbury-Walnut Cove highway just south of here, the authorities have been diverting traffic between Danbury and Meadows via Prestonville and other points east of here, a very circuitous route, requiring one to travel some 20 miles to reach Meadows, which is only four miles away.
Harrison Manring, a well known young character who hauls lumber for the Hollin’s saw mill near here, doesn’t fancy driving his mule team around the long detour, and yesterday he went over in the woods and trimmed out a detour of his own, right along parallel with the road where the steam shovels are at work, and Harrison has been using his road regularly since, saving a drive of 15 miles or more.
But the remarkable part of the story is that the general public has taken on to the detour, and trucks and cars are using Harrison’s detour right along. It has been suggested that Patrolman Sands had just as well get busy and help Harrison maintain his detour for the benefit of the public.
From the front page of the Danbury Reporter, Wednesday, June 9, 1926
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