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The Story of a Country Road

The Story of a Country Road Lynn Dickerson II Appalachian Heritage, Volume 10, Number 3, Summer 1982, pp. 3-21 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1982.0035 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/442022/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:26 GMT from JHU Libraries The .002 mile over Rabbit Run to the Craighead driveway. This alteration in Back Creek Road was made c. 1910. (photo 1982) by Lynn Dickerson, II A country road, as Lyn Dickerson indicates in his last paragraph, may well be an oblique history—an all but hidden image, of an area and its people that reveals itself fully only by careful study and record search. In an age of rapid change and cultural dislocation, it may tell, if by contrast only, who we are and "where we're at"—so being a pointer to where home might be. For some it still leads toward the only home we will ever know. Some people call it the "Corduroy Road"; others, the "Old County Road" or the "Wagon Road." Deed hooks, court order books, and road order books re- fer to it as the "Back Creek Road." Beginning as Route 640 some two miles southwest of Buchanan in Botetourt County, it follows http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

The Story of a Country Road

Dickerson, Lynn C.
Appalachian Review , Volume 10 (3) – Jan 8, 2014
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Lynn Dickerson II Appalachian Heritage, Volume 10, Number 3, Summer 1982, pp. 3-21 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1982.0035 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/442022/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:26 GMT from JHU Libraries The .002 mile over Rabbit Run to the Craighead driveway. This alteration in Back Creek Road was made c. 1910. (photo 1982) by Lynn Dickerson, II A country road, as Lyn Dickerson indicates in his last paragraph, may well be an oblique history—an all but hidden image, of an area and its people that reveals itself fully only by careful study and record search. In an age of rapid change and cultural dislocation, it may tell, if by contrast only, who we are and "where we're at"—so being a pointer to where home might be. For some it still leads toward the only home we will ever know. Some people call it the "Corduroy Road"; others, the "Old County Road" or the "Wagon Road." Deed hooks, court order books, and road order books re- fer to it as the "Back Creek Road." Beginning as Route 640 some two miles southwest of Buchanan in Botetourt County, it follows

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