Editor’s note: This story by former staff writer Barbara Marshall originally ran Jan. 14, 2016. It has been edited for updating, length and clarity.
One hundred and 10 years ago, Dixie Highway began to spawn today’s tourism industry.
Beginning in 1915 and for decades afterward, “The Dixie” was the artery that delivered the tourists who became residents, transforming America’s last frontier into a balmy, palmy middle-class paradise…