![]() Rescue Ranger – You can also see Falls lake after being graded but prior to stopping the water on iMAPS by selecting aerial and changing the date to 1981.Ī.C. Rob Mitchell – AC, I seem to remember a restaurant on one of these roads that was closed when the lake was created. Great find on the 1968 county maps, as well. Legeros – Thanks for the additions, A.C.! I have updated the map above. ![]() Rich – Here is the link to the NCDOT State mapping resources… really cool stuff. The maps reflect the roads as they actually were up until the very late 70’sĪ.C. road maps in 1968, including Wake County. Heck… every road in Bay Leaf/Stony Hill/Falls area was dirt except for Falls of Neuse Rd, Stony Hill Rd, Purnell Road, old Six Forks Rd., Hwy 98, New Light Road, and Hwy 50. extended to Falls of Neuse Rd and came out beside the recently closed Pedal and Paddle (at bridge where Fonville’s Store used to be located years ago. extended across Hwy 98 to old Hwy 98 (the separated section of Camp Kanata Road is now know as Tharrington Road) – all were dirt. ![]() The current Choplin Road was called Loop Road and followed the path you indicate.into what is now Blue Jay Point and connected with what is now Bay Leaf Church Road (previously Six Forks Rd) at what is now Mizelle Lane. The current Pleasant Union Church Road extended across the current Six Forks Rd.The current Six Forks Road from Hwy 98 to Bay Leaf was SR1005 and was often called Barton’s Creek Road and was dirt.Rich – Mike… this brings back some memories for me and really indicates just how the development reshaped the old roads. In particular, when was Six Forks Road and Highway 98 re-routed? Was that in the 1970s, years before construction on the lake started? Janet Steddum’s book The Battle for Falls Lake probably has more details a well. Of those, twenty were raised or relocated, eighteen were abandoned, and one was modified below the dam site, notes a note in the master plan document. Project wide– across all counties affected– sixty-four roads crossed project lands. See this US Army Corps of Engineers web site for. Readers can surely add more details and remembrances. What did the roads look like north of Raleigh before the construction of Falls Lake in the early 1980s? Here’s an annotated Google map, based on observations from the 1981 aerial map available from Wake County IMAPS. Those old roads sound like the perfect weekend (or holiday) exploration activity. It’s a 586-acre peninsula owned by the Army Corps of Engineers and managed by the state. That section of old road is planned to become Raleigh’s Forest Ridge Park. The best-preserved of the old roads, the author notes, is Old N.C. He writes about barricaded sections of Possum Track, Choplin, and Old Bayleaf roads as “slowly crumbling reminders of the rural farms and communities lost to the lake waters.” Last week’s North Raleigh News (and Midtown Raleigh News) featured an informative article by Colin Campbell about the “ghost roads” of Falls Lake. The page is corrupted on the old site, so we’re re-posting here. This is a blog archives posting from January 2014. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linkedin Share on Pinterest
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