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Tweetsie Trail Opens The plaza features a beautiful
and welcoming entrance sign.
Connectioning Johnson City and Elizabethton
suppliers stepped up to donate labor Products Corp donated $25K of pavers contributions from the community
and materials to supplement the and brick. Snyder Signs Corporation were nothing short of outstanding and
construction. Without them, the project donated a $24,000 entrance sign. Builders bridged the project funding gap.
could not have been constructed with the First Source donated $5K of materials And then there were the builders. A
money raised. Aggregate USA provided for the bridges. CSX and Southern RR $200K contract was given to In-land
chat at more than half off their selling companies donated 500 crossties. The Construction to construct two of the
price. Summers-Taylor Construction four Rotary clubs in the area jointly bridges. To keep the project within
supplied trucks and pavers to spread raised $24,000 for construction of budget, the village turned to its own
the aggregate. Two local construction the outdoor pavilion and education public works professionals to design and
companies, Burleson Construction and center. Milligan College donated and build the balance of the trail. For six
Mitch Cox Construction, provided labor constructed a replica of the original months, crews worked non-stop, clearing
to each build a bridge. General Shale Milligan Depot. In short, the in-kind Continued on page 8
The trail includes seven old bridges spanning a total
of approximately 500 feet of roadways and waterways
that were converted to pedestrian bridges substantial
enough to handle maintenance equipment.
Although the existing
rail line was completely
overgrown, the trail is now
12 to 14 feet wide with
a three-inch rock base.
- Photo by Harold Ross Jr.,
haroldrossjr.zenfolio.com.
TPW November/December 2014 7
and welcoming entrance sign.
Connectioning Johnson City and Elizabethton
suppliers stepped up to donate labor Products Corp donated $25K of pavers contributions from the community
and materials to supplement the and brick. Snyder Signs Corporation were nothing short of outstanding and
construction. Without them, the project donated a $24,000 entrance sign. Builders bridged the project funding gap.
could not have been constructed with the First Source donated $5K of materials And then there were the builders. A
money raised. Aggregate USA provided for the bridges. CSX and Southern RR $200K contract was given to In-land
chat at more than half off their selling companies donated 500 crossties. The Construction to construct two of the
price. Summers-Taylor Construction four Rotary clubs in the area jointly bridges. To keep the project within
supplied trucks and pavers to spread raised $24,000 for construction of budget, the village turned to its own
the aggregate. Two local construction the outdoor pavilion and education public works professionals to design and
companies, Burleson Construction and center. Milligan College donated and build the balance of the trail. For six
Mitch Cox Construction, provided labor constructed a replica of the original months, crews worked non-stop, clearing
to each build a bridge. General Shale Milligan Depot. In short, the in-kind Continued on page 8
The trail includes seven old bridges spanning a total
of approximately 500 feet of roadways and waterways
that were converted to pedestrian bridges substantial
enough to handle maintenance equipment.
Although the existing
rail line was completely
overgrown, the trail is now
12 to 14 feet wide with
a three-inch rock base.
- Photo by Harold Ross Jr.,
haroldrossjr.zenfolio.com.
TPW November/December 2014 7
