The Dixie Highway, the county’s first hard-surface road

Name: The Dixie Highway, the county’s first hard-surface road
Start: 1921

First1921. Card 93 of 165.

In 1921 the Dixie Highway, the first hard-surface road in Smith County, was built from Tyler to Winona with iron ore, gravel, asphalt and crushed limestone.

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The city’s National Register documentation calls a 1921 road on the Tyler-Dallas Highway the county’s first concrete-paved road. The two firsts are for different surfaces.

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Handbook of Texas: Smith Countytshaonline.orgIn 1921 the Dixie Highway, the first hard-surface road in the county, was built from Tyler to Winona with iron ore, gravel, asphalt, and crushed limestone.

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