Traveling the back alleys

Did you know that you could drive from the North Augusta Chamber of Commerce to the Sno-Cap Drive-In without ever getting on West Avenue? Or that you could leave the Waffle House without venturing on Georgia Avenue? From the initial plats commissioned by founder James U. Jackson, the City of North Augusta has featured a series of alleys between most of the downtown blocks. Most of the alleys were designed east to west, although there are even a few that traverse north to south.To the casual observer, many of these alleyways look like private drives; however, several are in regular use by the residents whose property backs up to those alleys or by businesses, such as Parks Pharmacy, where the ...
11/3/2009 11:06 PM