RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
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Showing posts with label Chattanooga Tn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chattanooga Tn. Show all posts
Thursday, May 21, 2020
The Dixie Highway Brought Paved Roads to the South-- Part 2: Carl Fisher, Man of Many Hats and the Dixie Highway.
The Dixie Highway began with an organizational meeting of 5,000 delegates in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on April 3, 1915. There were representatives from some 100 towns in seven states: Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
Four routes were mapped out for the new highway and all were completed by private landowners and local governments by 1927.
The Father of the Dixie Highway was Carl Fisher, the automobile, auto racing and real estate entrepreneur who had already spearheaded the nation's first intercontinental road, the Lincoln Highway, in 1913. He became the first director of the Dixie Highway Association and he went through a lot to get the road off the ground, especially since it would be providing routes to a resort community he was developing in Florida called Miami Beach. So, there was a definite method to his madness.
A photo of him accompanying the article is captioned: "Carl Fisher made his name making auto parts, developing Miami Beach and helping create the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indianapolis 500.
Miami Beach was incorporated on March 25, 1915.
--RoadCarl
Friday, April 3, 2015
100th Anniversary of the Dixie Highway Today-- Part 1
From the Tallahassee (Fla) Democrat "Dixie Highway brought paved roads to the South" by Gerald Ensley.
Today marks the 100 anniversary of the creation of the Dixie Highway, linking the Midwest to the South for the first time by improved roads.
Georgia Public Broadcasting TV will air a documentary on the Dixie Highway on Tuesday at 8 p.m. In Florida, there is a display on the road at the State Library at the R.A. Gray Building.
Today is the 100th anniversary because on this date an organizational meeting of 5,000 delegates convened in Chattanooga, Tennessee on April 3, 1915. It drew representatives from 100 towns in seven states: Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
And, then there was this man named Carl Fisher.
--RoadDog
Today marks the 100 anniversary of the creation of the Dixie Highway, linking the Midwest to the South for the first time by improved roads.
Georgia Public Broadcasting TV will air a documentary on the Dixie Highway on Tuesday at 8 p.m. In Florida, there is a display on the road at the State Library at the R.A. Gray Building.
Today is the 100th anniversary because on this date an organizational meeting of 5,000 delegates convened in Chattanooga, Tennessee on April 3, 1915. It drew representatives from 100 towns in seven states: Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
And, then there was this man named Carl Fisher.
--RoadDog
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