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The Road That Shouldn't Exist: Lavender Bundles and a Secret Trace
The Road That Shouldn't Exist: Lavender Bundles and a Secret Trace
A dry scent of lavender marked a road that doesn't appear on any deed or survey - nineteen bone-dry bundles tied with brown cord, arranged along a hand-laid stone margin on a gravel cut absent from maps going back to 1819. How can a lane be physically present, used for centuries of funerals, and yet exist nowhere in the legal record?
In this episode, we trace how a utility worker's tablet image and a folklorist's archival find reopen a vanished route's history, following funeral entries, a minister's 1872 letter, and a…
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