{"id":3539,"date":"2020-09-07T14:37:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T18:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/?p=3539"},"modified":"2020-09-07T14:51:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T18:51:41","slug":"may-discontinue-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/2020\/09\/07\/may-discontinue-road\/","title":{"rendered":"May Discontinue Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>from the research of Jerry McDaniel<\/h2>\n<h4><em>The Tennessean,<\/em> June 28, 1933<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/discontinue-road.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3543\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/discontinue-road-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/discontinue-road-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/discontinue-road-869x1024.jpg 869w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/discontinue-road-768x905.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/discontinue-road-1304x1536.jpg 1304w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/discontinue-road.jpg 1738w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a>LEXINGTON, Tenn., June 27 &#8211; (Spl.) &#8211; A meeting of a few of the N., C. &amp; St. L. railroad officials and the business men of Lexington and Henderson county was held in the depot Monday afternoon to discuss the discontinuance of the Perryville Branch road, which was built in 1887 as a part of the Tennessee Midland railroad.\u00a0 The railroad officials reported that the branch was being operated at a loss since the new concrete highway to Perryville has been finished.<\/p>\n<p>For a long time the little old-fashioned train, with several freight cars and one coach for passengers and mail, made two trips a day to Perryville on the Tennessee river.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/pea-vine-map\/\" data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Pea Vine Map \u2013 1936<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the research of Jerry McDaniel The Tennessean, June 28, 1933 LEXINGTON, Tenn., June 27 &#8211; (Spl.) &#8211; A meeting of a few of the N., C. &amp; St. L. railroad officials and the business men of Lexington and Henderson county was held in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Jerry Butler","author_link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/author\/jerrybutler\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/category\/yesterdays\/business\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Business and Industry<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Business and Industry<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"2","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on September 7, 2020","modified":"Updated on September 7, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on September 7, 2020 2:37 pm","modified":"Updated on September 7, 2020 2:51 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3544,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions\/3544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}