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Aiken Anecdotes on Early Travel and Cars
Aiken Anecdotes recalls how travel shaped writers and towns with a 1969 visit by Atlanta Antique Automobile Club members. The piece notes Route 1 and Route 19 history, early car enthusiasts like Charles Hill Sr and Dr. Frampton Wyman, and local memory of the first paved mile toward Edgefield. It highlights 1911 Good Roads Train, rail history, and local restorers Karl E Herde and E C Speed with vintage vehicles and parts lore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Allen Poe
Atlanta
Aiken
Old Aiken
Antique Automobile Club of America
Charleston
N. Y
Jacksonville
Augusta
America
Savannah
T. C. Stone
D. S. Henderson
Journal & Review
Oratory
Rt. 1
Charlie Hill
Sioner
Charles Hill Sr
Charlie
Buddy Platt
Earl Anderson
Edgefield
Hill
John Ashhurst
Nelson Johnson
Dr. Frampton Wyman
Chalmers
Barnwell
Willys-Overland
Willys-Qverland
Ashhurst Valso
Tagk
Paxt
Tie
County
Williston
Eulalie Salley
Ashhurst
R.A
Karl E. Herde
Karl
Canada
Britain
E. C. Speed