Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930
by
Tammy Ingram
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners. In their place, a jumble of dirt roads covered the region like a bed of briars. Introduced in 1915, the Dixie Highway changed all that by merging hundreds of short roads into dual interstate routes...