Highway 86 South of Yanceyville to Be Improved: 1965

 Highway 86 South of Yanceyville to Be Improved

In November 1965, North Carolina voters approved a $300 million road bond issue. This will provide funding for rebuilding Highway 86 between Yanceyville and Prospect Hill to the same standards as Highway 86 between Yanceyville and Danville, Virginia.

A total of $9,721,000 will be made available for primary roads in the highway district in which Caswell County is located. Caswell's Board of Commissioners has been told Caswell's share should be enough to complete the long-sought Highway 86 project.

The Commissioners earlier this year asked the NC State Highway Department to assign first priority to the stretch of road from Yanceyville to Prospect Hill. The road is extremely crooked, and shoulders on it are narrow. The road is heavily used by motorists traveling to Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh.

Since the consolidation this year of both Prospect Hill elementary and high schools with Bartlett Yancey in Yanceyville, the need for improving the highway has increased, according to the Commissioners.

Irvin Aldridge, Chairman of the Board of Commissioners, said he is hopeful sufficient funds will remain to begin reconstruction of US Highway 158. He also stated the Park Springs Road would be given high priority as school consolidation has increased traffic on that road. The old Providence Elementary School was closed last year and its enrollment transferred to Cobb Memorial on the Park Springs Road several miles from Providence.

The Danville Register (Danville, Virginia), 5 November 1965.