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Electric Road Project From Charlotte to Blowing Rock Grows
The Blue Ridge Development Company, based in Newton, advances plans for an electric railroad from Charlotte to Blowing Rock with a broad investor roster from Charlotte Salisbury Mount Holly and Newton. Progress includes thirty miles of profiles and maps, rights of way contracts, and projected heavy freight and large passenger potential across Lenoir Hickory Hudson Granite Falls and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Rock
Charlotte Observer
Charlotte
Blowing Rock
Mount Holly
Newton
J. D. Elliott
W.T. Shipp
A. P. Rhine
Thos. H. Coffey
J. L. Cilley Tressurer
Osborne Brown
J. Arthur Henderson
J. B. King, Jr
J. EB. Crayton
A. I. Henderson
Salisbury
J. D. Norwood
A. P. Rhyne
J. A. Costner
H. A. Rhyne
Long Island
W. B. Gaither
A. H. Crowell
Chas. A. Brady
A. B. Kuhn
W. T. Shipp
Hickory
Shipp
Lenoir
Hudson
Granite Falls
Jefferson
North Wilkesboro
Taylorsville
Blue Ridge Development Company
Norfolk & Western
Cape Fear
Southern
Sea Board Air Line