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The Road Ahead: History meets progress in Halls roads project list
9 projects to cost $300 million
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Traffic passes closely by the front of Turner’s Market on Cleveland Highway. One of the proposed Hall County projects would widen the road in front of the business. - photo by Tom Reed
At a narrow strip of road near Union Circle, a century-old house marks the spot where a South Hall County family has lived and still calls home, with ancestry stretching into the 19th century. “Beneath the concrete porch poured in the 1950s, there are ax-hewn logs, which would back up the family story of a pre-existing structure from the 19th century,” said Shannon Cole, who lives with her mother, Janyce Cole, in the house. Progress has come to this once-quiet corner of Hall County, with plans for a four-lane Spout Springs Road running between Flowery Branch and Braselton, one of the key pieces of Hall’s projects list for the proposed 1 percent sales tax for transportation.