PLANK ROAD
This street is the route of the Fayetteville-to-Salem plank road, a toll road 129 miles long, built 1849-54.
K-26Moore County
Where it stands. NC 24/27 in Carthage
If a rocket screams across the darkness, the counterinsurgent can hunched down in his slit trench and pray that the glowing green ball with a sound like a steam locomotive will land on somebody else instead. Prayer probably won’t help, any more than it’ll stop the rain or make the mosquitoes stop biting. But nothing else will help either.