{"nrhp_refnum":"83001901","name":"Newland Road Site","other_names":["The Nine Foot Brick Road"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"U.S. 17","address_restricted":false,"city":"Morgan's Corner","county":"Pasquotank County","state":"NC","lat":36.374736817500064,"lon":-76.29419228926895,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-04-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Engineering","Transportation","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two remnant sections of an early twentieth-century brick highway, known as the Newland Road or Nine Foot Brick Road, near Morgan's Corner north of Elizabeth City in Pasquotank County, North Carolina. It was built by the Pasquotank Highway Commission beginning around 1920.","why_significant":"The road typifies early twentieth-century efforts to build hard-surfaced highways across marshy coastal terrain, first under county sponsorship and then under the State Highway Commission. It illustrates a distinctive brick construction method suited to wetlands. Excavation of one section also yielded data on construction techniques and the possible re-use of older roadbeds.","narrative":"Two surviving stretches of a brick highway lie east of U.S. 17 near Morgan's Corner, north of Elizabeth City. Known as the Newland Road or Nine Foot Brick Road, it was begun by the Pasquotank Highway Commission around 1920 to link Elizabeth City with South Mills and, beyond, Norfolk. The state took over the project in 1921 and required a cement and mortar base for later construction, though the first five miles had a sand and dirt base. The route followed much older roads, and excavation of a third section found bricks laid on mortar and grey clay fill, with a possible earlier cinder road beneath. When U.S. 17 replaced the road between 1930 and 1936, most bricks were removed. The remnants are valued as evidence of how a swampy coastal county sought safe, reliable motor travel, and as a source of data on brick road construction. Farming and road building have removed much of the original roadway.","period_of_significance":"1922","architect_builder":"Pasquotank Highway Commission; Chief Engineer T.L. Higgs; local supplier apparently Lambert Brothers, Inc., of Elizabeth City","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C","D"],"status_note":"Two remnant sections survive; some are used as driveways or access roads by local residents, others have deteriorated. Agricultural equipment crossing the bricks is a current threat. Condition is marked good and altered.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.300683-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/98/7216/47721698/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/83001901.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001901/99a4257b20-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001901/99a4257b20-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"DaveEM1004","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newland_Road,_Section_D,_Closeup.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">DaveEM1004</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newland_Road,_Section_D,_Closeup.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721698","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newland_Road_Site","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987302"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/pasquotank-county/newland-road-site-83001901/"}