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Tobacco Road stands as monument to not so illustrious South
Associated Press writer Jack Stillman recalls a five mile Tobacco Road near Augusta Georgia once unpaved and named for Caldwell's novel. The road winds past Ft Gordon Bush Field Gracewood School and the Richmond County prison with vacant shacks and trash piles hinting at poverty. Rockefellers winter drives and local resistance to renaming amplify the era.
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Tobacco Road
Augusta
Erskine Caldwell
New York
Caldwell
Savannah River
Richmond County Commission
Augusta National
Ft. Gordon
Richmond County Prison
Gracewood School