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Pulaski County Roads - 1919
Pulaski County, Arkansas |
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Re-inforced concrete bridge on the Camp Pike road, contracted. In
1917, the type will be used on the roads in course of construction and
to be constructed. |
Pulaski
County is well provided with roads. Most of the milleage, however, is
nothing more than improved dirt road. Prior to July 1917, the most
permanent improved road in the county was a water-bound macadam, which
served as a very useful purpose for the light traffic it had to
accommodate up to that time. At the present time, there are only two
improved roads in the county superior in quality to the water bound
macadam. These are Camp Pike road, constructed with two inches of
bituminous wearing surface on a water bound macadam base, and the road
leading from the city of Little Rock to Picron, built exactly as the
Camp Pike road.
Provision the County has made for future roads.
The county will complete within the next two years approximately two
hundred miles of hard-surface roads. Some of these are now under
construction. Beginning with the opening of Spring 1920, all contracts
will have been let, and the roads under course of construction. These
roads are as follows:
From North Little Rock following the Fort Smith railroad to the Faulkner
county line, there connecting with a road being constructed through the
counties north to Fort Smith.
Another road will be constructed from North Little Rock to the Lonoke
county line, five miles northeast of Jacksonville, and connecting there
with a road in course of construction through the counties north to the
Missouri state line.
Another road from North Little Rock by way of Prothro's Gin and Galloway
to the Lonoke county line. This road is now under construction and will
be the Bankhead National Highway through Pulaski county east from Little
Rock.
Another road will be constructed from just east of the city limits of
the city of North Little Rock, south along the Cotton Belt railroad by
Baucum, Scott's Station, J.R. Alexander's place, J.H. Laster's place and
thence to the Lonoke county line west of England.
Another road will be constructed from Fifteenth and Main in the city of
Little Rock, east of Fifteenth Street by the Abeles Mill, and on south
of Fourche dam in Badgett township.
Another road will be constructed from Ninth and Main, east on Ninth to
Barber avenue, thence south on Barber by Sweet Home, Wrightsville,
Woodson, and Farrel, connecting with the Jefferson county Dollarway.
Another road will be constructed from Twenty-eighth and Arch streets in
the city of Little Rock, south along the Arch Street Pike to the county
line, and will connect with a road through Banner township, Saline
county, and an improved road from Grant County to Sheridan, with some
laterals to it.
Another road will be constructed from Markham and Broadway, south over
Nineteenth Street Pike, to Hot Springs through the counties of Pulaski,
Saline, and Garland. The Pulaski County portion of this road is under
construction and will be completed about the first of April, 1920. This
road will constitute the Bankhead National Highway west from Little
Rock.
Another road will be constructed from Twelfth and Gaines streets, west
on Twelfth to the town of Ferndale in Owens township.
Another road will be constructed from Markham and Main streets in the
city of Little Rock, west on Markham to Victory, south on Victory to
Third and West on Third street following the car line to Forrest Park,
and thence the main road to Cross Roads in Maumelle township, and there
connecting with the highway to Perryville in Perry county. There will be
an important lateral to the town of Roland.
Contracts will also be awarded by January 1920, for the construction of
two reinforced concrete bridges across the Arkansas river, one at
Broadway and one to supersede the old steel structure now at Main
street. There will also be substantial bridges built on all of those
roads. For instance, a re-inforced concrete bridge on the Sweet Home
Pike and the Arch Street Pike across the Fourche, a re-inforced concrete
bridge across Rock creek on the Nineteenth Street Pike.
The construction of these roads will be of a durable type, the like of
which had not been seen in Arkansas prior to the construction of the
Camp Pike and Picron roads, above mentioned. The cost of the roads and
bridges will be about the equivalent of the county's subscription to two
Liberty loans, but instead of paying this in cash, it will be paid over
a period of twenty years. The county subscribed to five Liberty loans
voluntarily. The funds to be raised for these constructions are upon an
assessment of benefits, very nearly the equivalent of taxation, and is
more equitable than the voluntary subscription to the Liberty loans.
These constructions, when completed, will have the effect of advancing
the county ten years.
Lee Miles
County and Probate Judge |
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Scene on the Picron Road, the road constructed to meet the
requirements of the Government, south and east of Little Rock. |
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Scene on the Camp Pike road. This road has stood the remarkable test
of the government's five-ten ton trucks heavily loaded and driven at a
rapid rate of speed. |
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Lee Miles - County/Probate Judge
Former County Judges of Pulaski County
W.F. Blackwood 1874 - 1876
M.H. Eastman 1876 - 1878
R.C. Wall 1878 - 1880
James Coates 1880 - 1882
W.J. Patton 1882 - 1884
W.F. Hill 1884 - 1890
Jacob Erb 1890 - 1892
W.A. Compton 1892 - 1896
Anderson Mills 1896 - 1900
W.M. Kavanaugh 1900 - 1904
C.T. Coffman 1904 - 1908
Joe Asher 1908 - 1916
Lee Miles 1916 - |
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