After World War 1 ended, North Carolinians took the ride of their lives.
The Arrival of the Automobile
North Carolinians had known about cars since about 1905, when wealthy industrials and physicians bought them home to every town in state.
The Good Road State
To make automobiles and intergral part of industrial progress, state leaders decide to build a network of roads that would connect the industrial towns of the Piedmont with the raw materials grown on the Coastal Plain.
A State on the Move
During the five years after the end of the war, more than 100,000 people moved to towns and cities in North Carolina.
The Paradoxes of Progress
Where dairy farmers near Hickory were doign well, five out of every six farmers in Scotland County were still sharecroppers.
The Arrival of the Automobile
North Carolinians had known about cars since about 1905, when wealthy industrials and physicians bought them home to every town in state.
The Good Road State
To make automobiles and intergral part of industrial progress, state leaders decide to build a network of roads that would connect the industrial towns of the Piedmont with the raw materials grown on the Coastal Plain.
A State on the Move
During the five years after the end of the war, more than 100,000 people moved to towns and cities in North Carolina.
The Paradoxes of Progress
Where dairy farmers near Hickory were doign well, five out of every six farmers in Scotland County were still sharecroppers.