Paved Roads in Vinings and Cobb County, Georgia
When and how did Vinings get paved roads? After you learn a condensed version of the
story, you may ask yourself if the lessons can be applied to today’s traffic
and transportation issues in Vinings and Atlanta.
1946 is when Vinings received the funding to get paved
roads. Vinings was not the only part of Cobb County get the funding for
drivable roads. In 1946 they were
considered rural, and that could be classified as a compliment. According to Harold Martin of the Atlanta Constitution who said that they
were worse in 1946 than at the turn of the century when “mules and wagon
navigated around the mud holes much more efficiently than could the modern
automobile.” You could not drive on the
roads after unusually heavy rains and cold weather hit Vinings and its
surrounding area. Some of the today’s
major roads that were not paved back then included Concord, Powers Ferry, Lower
Roswell, Johnson Ferry and Sandy Plains roads.
They were considered rural byways.
Think
about 1946 and Cobb County as a whole for a second, and then the lesson that
Vinings residents probably learned from recent history in their areas, and now
today. It was a year after World War II,
and Marietta was major assembly plant for Bell Aircraft’s B-29 bomber, At the
beginning of 1942, construction of the plant had not yet begun, and then by April
18, 1943 it was opened. The lesson from
the construction of the Bell plant is that need
will motivate people to act quickly and
decisively. Obviously, the war was a
national emergency. Locally, Cobb County
politicians saw the lack of paved roads as contributing to major one in the
future. The inability to drive would
prevent the facilitation of prosperity in the area. What major businesses would want to locate to
an area where transportation was a major problem?
As
far as today’s lesson, transportation affects everybody in Vinings in Atlanta, Its problems have become the Achilles heel
for sustained financial growth, primarily in Buckhead and further south, and
the Perimeter area and North of it. New
companies considering opening new offices, and current ones looking to expand,
need to know that their employees can arrive on time consistently, and that the
amount of sales calls by their salespeople is only limited by workers’
determination, and availability of prospects.
Thankfully, Vinings serves companies’ transportation needs well, despite
the charm of traffic being stopped by the train track. There are multiple ways to get into our home.
You can access Vinings by Atlanta Road at two different locations, I-285, I-75,
and Cobb Parkway. From these access
points, companies can reach some of the best commercial properties anywhere in
the Atlanta area. They are close to a
wide variety of housing opportunities to support employees’ needs. Thus, people can be expected to arrive to
work on time, and that is a major contributor to a company’s efficiency and
subsequently prosperity. Therefore, the
affect of transportation has been positive, and it is provides just another
reason why Vinings is a great place.
I
would like to know to your thoughts.
Please post them.
Have
a great day.
Jim
P.S.
– My thanks to Professor Thomas Allen Scott for sharing some of this
information with me. He is the author of
Cobb County, Georgia and the Origins of
the Suburban South.
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