Transportation Through the Ages

Transportation Through the Ages (HMV0E)

Location: Chilhowie, VA 24319 Smyth County
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Country: United States of America
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N 36° 47.71', W 81° 40.888'

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1900-1930's

— The Carriage House —

Roads were only paths made by walking and from the passage of wagons and buggies. When the first cars came into the area, the roads were "pot-hole after pot-hole." Sam Bonham told of riding his motorcycle around 1918 to Knoxville, Tennessee, dodging the holes in the road. When it rained, roads were all mud. The Macadam road led from St. Clair's Bottom to Chilhowie and was built around 1905. H.L. Bonham was instrumental in the development of good roads in Smyth County, Virginia, and served on the commonwealth of Virginia's Good Road Commission (ca. 1916). In 1911, Mr. Bonham owned the third automobile in the local area for transport, a Cadillac. The first automobile used for farm use was a Ford Model T.

The Carriage House was built to house H.L. Bonham's first cars.
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Date Added Sunday, September 21st, 2014 at 12:13am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)17S E 439203 N 4072366
Decimal Degrees36.79516667, -81.68146667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 36° 47.71', W 81° 40.888'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds36° 47' 42.60" N, 81° 40' 53.28" W
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Area Code(s)276
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 101-117 Shop Rd, Chilhowie VA 24319, US
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