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| N.C. 294 14 miles | ||
| Located entirely within Cherokee
County, as far west as you can get in North Carolina. Starts at U.S.
64/74 and continues into Tennessee
as Tennessee 123.
An otherwise forgotten backroad, 294 passes by the Fields of the Wood Christian retreat near the Tennessee line. FotW is best known for its display of the Ten Commandments built into a hillside (below). |
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| History | ||
| N.C. 294 was signed over previously-existing roads, and
first shows up on maps dated 1932. It spurred from N.C.
28, rather than from N.C. 29. The number 294 was probably chosen for
this road because all the 28x numbers had been exhausted. 294 was originally
signed:
See Map #1. It is possible that 294 may have also originally run along Bell Hill Road (SR 1127) north of 64/74, but I cannot confirm this. In 1934 or early 1935, the portion of 294 south of 64/74 was renumbered to N.C. 60. The continuation into Georgia was originally Georgia 86. Georgia renumbered to 60 a couple years before N.C. did. Today, N.C. 60 becomes Georgia Spur 60, rather than mainline 60. In the early 1940s, 294 was taken off Candy Mountain Road and given
its current routing. See Map #2, which shows both old and new alignments.
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| Comments | ||
| N.C. 294 forms a set of Four Corners
roads along with N.C. 88, N.C.
179 and N.C. 615.
294 is not memorably mountains, especially compared
to other roads in the area, but it does have its curvy stretches. It is
scheduled to receive $28 million worth of modernization, however, with
construction starting in 2007 at the earliest. Another perfectly good rustic
backroad safety-sanitized for your boredom. At least you've got a few years
left to drive it the way it is.
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Sources: NCDOT 2002-2008 Transportation Improvement Plan