Last updated: March 18, 2023
Place
The Transportation Story
NPS Photo/Daniel Cox
More than a means of travel, highways and railroads link individuals and communities to commercial opportunities. Over time, routes in the Nicodemus Township changed and now reveal their stories through old maps, abandoned roadbeds, and Google Map views. Counties built roads in the 1880s, including the old Stockton trail. It traveled west from Stockton into Graham County 3 miles north of Nicodemus. From there, it continued west 4 miles. At that point, it turned south where it connected with a westerly road from Nicodemus right here. Finally, in the late 1950s, transportation authorities rerouted Highway 24 so it passed the town of Nicodemus on its northern border.