North Carolina Highway 32
North Carolina State Highway 32 was built in 1938 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The president at the time, Theodore Delano Roosevelt knew it was a matter of time before we were involved in World War II, He Needed a North South highway close to the Atlantic coast with unlimited weight capacity for hauling tanks and munitions to protect the U.S.A. from coastal invasion. It was built on a clay roadbed while most road construction now is sand. Much of the swamps had to be dug out and existing soil replaced with brown clay, and because of the unreliability of the dump trucks, tractors and bulldozers of the era much of the labor was done with teams of horses, mules, drags and by hand with shovels, rakes and buckets The Albemarle Sound bridge was one of the Longest Bridges ever attempted when it was built at 3.5 miles Long! All of the curves are built using a new design for the time of Banking so you could maintain higher speeds safely which before had only been used on railroad tracks. Also many of the straight stretches are Five miles or longer. The actual Highway was made from Cement and was 30 ft long x 10 ft wide squares of cement held together by 9/16ths rebar with one inch spaces filled with tar and sawdust for expansion and shrinkage. Script error: No such module "AfC submission catcheck".
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