Please click here and sign the petition to complete the North Shore Road. You do not have to be from this area or even this state to sign the petition. Also please have all your friends and relatives sign but even if there is only one name please mail it back to us. The address is at the bottom of the form. Thank you so much!

America, you may think that eminent domain is a new concept, but in 1943 the people of the North Shore were forced to leave their towns including Bushnell, Fontana, Judson, Proctor and many thriving communities like Hazel Creek, Dorsey, Chambers Creek, Noland's Creek, etc behind, some of them never to return, to make way for a hydro-electric plant know today as Fontana Dam.

An agreement was drawn up in 1943 between the Department of Interior, the State of NC, the TVA and the people of Swain County saying a road would be built to replace the old N.C. Highway 288, which would provide access back to the cemeteries on the North Shore of Fontana Lake. The people of the North Shore clung to this promise, but alas no road, so the 1943 North Shore Road Association was formed in 1985 to help the residents of the Forney Creek Township fight for the completion of the road promised to them in 1943.

The Tennessee Valley Authority paid very little for the land taken for easement to build Fontana Dam and fill the Fontana Reservoir, in fact the price the TVA paid for 1000 acres would not buy 10 acres in any of the surrounding counties. Also, if the North Shore People owed back taxes, the TVA did not have to pay them one thin dime. We are talking about people who lived during the depression, many only surviving because they had a good milk cow and a few chickens because there was no money to provide them with food. When these people left the North Shore they left the only way of life they had ever known behind, therefore 1943 North Shore Road Association will not rest until 1943 agreement is fulfilled, nothing less will do.