Rail-Trails are unused railroad corridors that have been preserved and converted into community assets as historical, recreational, environmental, and economic resources. Lengths vary from hundreds of feet to hundreds of miles. Surfaces vary from dirt to gravel to asphalt to concrete. Uses vary from hiking to biking to roller blading and skating to horseback riding.
North Carolina Rail-Trails is proposing that the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railway / Atlantic Coast Line Railroad right-of-way through the former Rockefeller family estate at Overhills, Harnett and Cumberland Counties, be converted for public use as a Rail-Trail.
The North Carolina Rail-Trails proposal addresses four basic issues:PROJECT BACKGROUND
- History
- Health & Recreation
- The Environment, and
- Economic Impact.
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Click on the logo to contact the "Save Overhills" organization. |
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Click on the logo to access the webpage for the Army's Overhills EIS (Environmental Impact Statement), and to leave comments on any aspect of the project. |
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Click on the logo to read the Minutes of the June 5 Public Scoping Meeting held at the Cumberland County Library in Fayetteville. |
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Click on the logo to read a letter sent to the Army Corps of Engineers concerning the Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the Army's use of the Overhills Property which outlines the North Carolina Rail-Trails' proposal. |
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Click on the logo for an article which appeared in the Fayetteville Observer on Sunday, July 8, 2001.) |
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Click on the logo for an article which appeared in the Fayetteville Observer on Thursday, July 13.) |
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Click on the logo for an editorial which appeared in the Fayetteville Observer on Tuesday, August 7.) |
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Click on the logo for more information on the national Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. |
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Click on the logo for more information on the NC Rails-Trails organization |
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Click on the logo for more information on the Triangle Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, which is developing the American Tobacco Trail in Durham, Wake, and Chatham Counties. |
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Click on the logo for more information on the Donald Ross Society. |
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Click on the logo for an article in the Winter 2001 issue of Triad Golf Today magazine about the Donald Ross-designed Overhills golf course. |
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Click on the logo for more information on The First Tee program. |
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Photo from Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; Steam Locomotives, Ships and History by Richard E. Prince, 1966
(reprinted by the Indiana University Press in 2000).