Feds pony up debt owed since 1943
The Road to Nowhere still dead-ends in the mountains of Swain County, but Uncle Sam has finally made good on an IOU that dates to World War II.After previous commitments fell short, the Interior Department last week paid the county $35.2 million to settle a 1943 pledge to rebuild roads flooded by Fontana Lake. The lake’s dam, for which 600 families were removed from their land, was built in wartime to supply the electricity needed to make aircraft aluminum.The 34-mile North […]
