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Looking west on Black Hollow road just west of old Battenfield place
and just before Greenleaf road at the south gate, a short distance south
of the old Greenleaf bridge the WPA built in the 30's. Before that, there
was a swinging bridge across Big Greenleaf creek. Remember the bridge is
just south of where the old Greenleaf school used to be. The road used
to go straight here to join Greenleaf road, instead of curving like it
does now. You will see why I am telling this when you read on below.
This is the old road when it went straight east up the hill. This picture
is looking east from just inside the gate at the end of Greenleaf and Black
Hollow roads, where they meet at the bottom of the hill west of the
old Battenfield place. My daddy was driving on this road when he was dating
my mama and one time he was going too fast to make this curve at the bottom
of the hill and turned over his little 29 model A Ford car and mama went
right through the canvas top! Daddy rode the little car on over and upright
again! He thought he had killed mama but she was just dazed from hitting
the ground after going through the top! Daddy said the wheel on his little
car really wobbled after that wreck. He had to get someone to help drag
the car home. Everytime I drive down Black Hollow road in this area, I think
of my daddy and mama driving along and I feel somehow near them. Isn't
that strange?!
This is the road going west right after going through the gate at the
bottom of the hill. If you look back east you would see the old road in
the previous picture. The road went on west and a road also went South.
Daddy was coming from the south when he couldn't make the curve. This road
is near where the old Charlie Glass place was.
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