Sylvan Road is a corridor located largely in the hills south of downtown Monterey, California. The corridor was developed during the early 1940s as road which looped California State Route 1 from Munras Avenue to Fremont Avenue via the Del Monte Golf Course. Modern developments around La Mesa Village have led to two segments of roadway which once served as a through route being abandoned. Part 1; a fragmented history of Sylvan Road Sylvan Road occupies a corridor which once comprised part of Rancho Aquajito south of downtown Monterey. The land was granted to George Tapia during 1835 by then Alta California governor Jose Figueroa. Tapia's land holdings were honored by the Public Land Commission in 1853 following the Mexican-American War and emergence of the state of California. The land was eventually purchased by David Jacks and later sold to the Pacific Improvement Company. The lands of Rancho Aquajito along the coastline were used by the Pacific Improvement Company to de
In the nearly 60 years Interstate 40 has been open to traffic through the Pigeon River Gorge in the mountains of Western North Carolina, it has been troubled by frequent rockslides and damaging flooding, which has seen the over 30-mile stretch through North Carolina and Tennessee closed for months at a time. Most recently, excessive rainfall from Hurricane Helene in September 2024 saw sections of Interstate 40 wash away into a raging Pigeon River. While the physical troubles of Interstate 40 are well known, how I-40 came to be through the area is a tale of its own. Interstate 40 West through Haywood County near mile marker 10. I-40's route through the Pigeon River Gorge dates to local political squabbles in the 1940s and a state highway law written in 1921. A small note appeared in the July 28, 1945, Asheville Times. It read that the North Carolina State Highway Commission had authorized a feasibility study of a "...water-level road down [the] Pigeon River to the Tennessee l