I actually agree that having a good highway system and easy to navigate roads is good for our economy. This extended from roughly The auto tours through central Illinois were described as “suffrage by relay” in a July 21, 1910 edition of the Chicago Tribune. The following excerpt comes from Howard Preston’s section “Good Roads Movement” in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry: “The good roads movement in the South was at first primarily an attempt to convince farmers that road improvements would not be detrimental to their interests.
The road bed goes down six feet (next time you pass American road construction notice how far they go down) and the speed signs are digital and adjusted during the day depending on traffic flow. After three days of traveling, Dr. Anna Blount would relinquish leadership of the tour to Rev. As public demand for automobiles increased in the early 1900s, so did the desire for more reliable, standardized roads; if Americans were going to keep purchasing cars, they needed somewhere to drive them. It's hard to imagine this country with unpaved, terrible roads. Southerners were quick to exploit the economic opportunities created by the new roads which were built from the 1920s down to the present day. In Illinois, the Interstate system and U.S. Route system currently create a web of steady automobile traffic throughout the state. It wasn’t until last year that I had the misfortune of experiencing how a Missouri winter can affect a car that it used to the climate of the Deep South. Avery originally wanted his Chicago-to-Los Angeles road to be numbered 60, but lost the title to another major highway connecting Newport News, Virginia to Springfield, Missouri. Macadam roads lowered the costs of Previously, there weren’t many good roads in the South and our regional railroad network was privately owned by three Yankee free-market capitalists – J.P. Morgan, Henry Plant and Henry Flagler – who made vast fortunes for themselves off the backs of poor Southern farmers by controlling the arteries of commerce. In 1909 and 1910, suffragists embarked upon auto tours across Illinois to grow support for the suffrage movement throughout the state. the Great Plains. spends her free time reading, cooking, and exploring the great outdoors. The movement lasted from approximately 1880 to 1916. The first good roads movement had two Old cars on display in Arizona along Route 66 that probably traveled along the famous route, with a history to tell. [1] William Kaszynski. It was the construction of the federal highway system which more than anything else liberated the Southern economy from the stranglehold of Yankee oligarchs like J.P. Morgan who had seized control of the entire privately owned railroad system. California, tourism possible. The bureau embodied to the resulting network. [6] “Holds Office Is No Place for Mother; Refueses Candidacy.” Chicago Inter Ocean, October 1, 1910. I know that the government has passed some stimulus measures to direct money towards these infrastructure projects. Created by the Evanston Women’s History Project at the Evanston History Center. Amazon Doesn't Want You to Know About This Plugin. Seely, Bruce. Here’s an excerpt about the Good Roads Movement from George B. Tindall’s The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945: “Numerous state and area groups testified to the universal interest: a North Carolina Good Roads Association as early as 1901, a Southern Good Roads Association, the Appalachian Good Roads Association, the Chattahoochee Good Roads Association, and others. The question of who should be in charge of constructing roads has lingered in American politics since the beginning of the country.
Washington DC: American Road proved an even more powerful lobby than bicyclists. Jeffrey Tucker Condemns Right-Hegelianism, THIS wouldn’t happen in : A VERY ENLARGED CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA FOR WHITE CHRISTIANS ONLY : https://www.infowars.com/report-fbi-uncovers-islamic-terror-training-camp-in-alabama/. Municipal Charter Reform in Chicago: Civic Duty, Women’s Role, and Women’s Suffrage, The 1913 Suffrage Parade in Washington D.C. – An Illinois Perspective, The 1918 Spanish Flu: How Suffragists Like Ella Flagg Young Continued Their Fight, Voting Was Only the Beginning for American Women, The Two-Fold Struggle: African American Republican Women’s Clubs, The Founding of the National Woman’s Party, Suffer Not the Rain: The 1916 Suffrage Parade in Chicago, Follow Suffrage 2020 Illinois on WordPress.com. as Massachusetts and New York were clearly The existence of a federal and state highway system which is maintained by “the state” and is accessible for free to any citizen is something we take for granted in our times. @Charred - We need more bicycle paths where we live. These roads were extremely difficult and uncomfortable to travel on, no matter what sort of transportation one used, and they were also poorly marked, making it difficult for people to get around. mass-producing his Model T by 1913, prices networks of highways funded in states such Today, US 62 is a four-lane, divided highway, but it used to be a narrow road that. west of Palo Pinto, Texas. This website does not support violence. They believed traditions are inherently progressive. As public demand for automobiles increased in the early 1900s, so did the desire for more reliable, standardized roads; if Americans were going to keep purchasing cars, they needed somewhere to drive them. At Table Grove, Grace Wilbur Trout would direct the tour on its way back toward Chicago. A significant component of the state system is the 33,859 miles of road and 10,385 bridges, both of which rank among the largest for any state in the nation.
[10] “Map from Macomb, Ill. to Colchester, Ill., to Webster, Ill. To Burnside, Ill., to Ferris, Ill, to Carthage, Ill. Google Maps, accessed October 28, 2019. The, New road construction and the improvement of existing roads became the big concerns for these agencies. Road improvements in the South were made by local good roads organizations, by county bond issues, or occasionally by states like North Carolina, which sponsored “Good Road Days,” during which citizens actually labored to grade or resurface a stretch of road in their community. I feel like returning to the early 20th century this morning. The Good Roads Movement in fact owes its inception to the bicycle, an immensely popular method of transportation and recreation in turn of the century America, and some its most notable figures were cyclists. On modern roads, just Monday’s itinerary would cover 68 miles and 1 hour 26 minutes of driving time, visiting five towns [8].
As the article said, most people think that highway and road improvement started because of cars, not bicycles. Wixom, Charles W. ARBA Pictorial History In addition to making travel rapid and more pleasant, advocates in the Good Roads Movement also felt that better roads would bring more privileges and amenities to rural areas of America, perhaps stemming the tide of relocation from rural farms to the city. McCulloch was quick to act. “I do not regard [good roads] as factors in long-distance transportation,” the president of the Southern Railway told a Congressional committee in 1913, “and I welcome them in connection with the development of the areas surrounding our system.” A favorite promotional device was the named highway association, which mapped out a specified route and gathered in the community boomers along the way. Join the Movement. Learn more about the Good Roads Movement (in Arkansas, anyway) in my book, Dwight D. Eisenhower watches as a transport truck is pulled out of the morass during the 1919 transcontinental convoy. This movement This movement had a tremendous effect in Hughes would lead the tour through the following Friday, where the tour would reach its farthest point at Table Grove, Illinois. Geographical Review 72 (1982): Route 66: A History Good Roads Movement. The third movement, which THE GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT 1880 - 1912 WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST Sister Caitriona Quinn Hi story 453 August, 1968 . As you might imagine from the name, the Good Roads Movement was dedicated to improving the condition of roads in America, especially in rural America, and it was spearheaded by cyclists, although automobile drivers also jumped on the Good Roads bandwagon. Please keep all discussions in the comments civil and respectful. Kansas, situated in the center of the country, has always been the center of cross-country traffic. ... Route 66 linked the isolated and predominantly rural West to the densely populated urban Midwest and Northeast." there was a dealer in most county seats in the added to the problem because of their
Montana, and Wyoming only had 12 states and California.
Consequently, certain key figures participated in both the Good Roads movement and the suffrage movement, including suffragist Catharine Waugh McCulloch. the U.S. Post Office, and the organization of which came late to the first good roads
Organizations, including the Womenâs National Trail Association and the Old Trails Association, began lobbying for an "Ocean-to-Ocean Highway" (Krim 52) -- a paved road, safer than the old wagon trails, that would allow the new wave of driving tourists to indulge their desire for a more individualized, leisurely form of travel. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. The Chicago Tribune archives provide a time capsule into public perception of both the Good Roads Movement and the Women’s Suffrage Movement. By 1939 these seven states had decent The auto tours continued beyond 1910-1911 and exceeded the scope of just Illinois. Rev.
You often hear the rise of the automobile credited with the emergence of good roads in the United States, much to the frustration of historians. Roads in turn of the century America were not a pretty sight, especially in rural areas.
I actually agree that having a good highway system and easy to navigate roads is good for our economy. This extended from roughly The auto tours through central Illinois were described as “suffrage by relay” in a July 21, 1910 edition of the Chicago Tribune. The following excerpt comes from Howard Preston’s section “Good Roads Movement” in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry: “The good roads movement in the South was at first primarily an attempt to convince farmers that road improvements would not be detrimental to their interests.
The road bed goes down six feet (next time you pass American road construction notice how far they go down) and the speed signs are digital and adjusted during the day depending on traffic flow. After three days of traveling, Dr. Anna Blount would relinquish leadership of the tour to Rev. As public demand for automobiles increased in the early 1900s, so did the desire for more reliable, standardized roads; if Americans were going to keep purchasing cars, they needed somewhere to drive them. It's hard to imagine this country with unpaved, terrible roads. Southerners were quick to exploit the economic opportunities created by the new roads which were built from the 1920s down to the present day. In Illinois, the Interstate system and U.S. Route system currently create a web of steady automobile traffic throughout the state. It wasn’t until last year that I had the misfortune of experiencing how a Missouri winter can affect a car that it used to the climate of the Deep South. Avery originally wanted his Chicago-to-Los Angeles road to be numbered 60, but lost the title to another major highway connecting Newport News, Virginia to Springfield, Missouri. Macadam roads lowered the costs of Previously, there weren’t many good roads in the South and our regional railroad network was privately owned by three Yankee free-market capitalists – J.P. Morgan, Henry Plant and Henry Flagler – who made vast fortunes for themselves off the backs of poor Southern farmers by controlling the arteries of commerce. In 1909 and 1910, suffragists embarked upon auto tours across Illinois to grow support for the suffrage movement throughout the state. the Great Plains. spends her free time reading, cooking, and exploring the great outdoors. The movement lasted from approximately 1880 to 1916. The first good roads movement had two Old cars on display in Arizona along Route 66 that probably traveled along the famous route, with a history to tell. [1] William Kaszynski. It was the construction of the federal highway system which more than anything else liberated the Southern economy from the stranglehold of Yankee oligarchs like J.P. Morgan who had seized control of the entire privately owned railroad system. California, tourism possible. The bureau embodied to the resulting network. [6] “Holds Office Is No Place for Mother; Refueses Candidacy.” Chicago Inter Ocean, October 1, 1910. I know that the government has passed some stimulus measures to direct money towards these infrastructure projects. Created by the Evanston Women’s History Project at the Evanston History Center. Amazon Doesn't Want You to Know About This Plugin. Seely, Bruce. Here’s an excerpt about the Good Roads Movement from George B. Tindall’s The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945: “Numerous state and area groups testified to the universal interest: a North Carolina Good Roads Association as early as 1901, a Southern Good Roads Association, the Appalachian Good Roads Association, the Chattahoochee Good Roads Association, and others. The question of who should be in charge of constructing roads has lingered in American politics since the beginning of the country.
Washington DC: American Road proved an even more powerful lobby than bicyclists. Jeffrey Tucker Condemns Right-Hegelianism, THIS wouldn’t happen in : A VERY ENLARGED CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA FOR WHITE CHRISTIANS ONLY : https://www.infowars.com/report-fbi-uncovers-islamic-terror-training-camp-in-alabama/. Municipal Charter Reform in Chicago: Civic Duty, Women’s Role, and Women’s Suffrage, The 1913 Suffrage Parade in Washington D.C. – An Illinois Perspective, The 1918 Spanish Flu: How Suffragists Like Ella Flagg Young Continued Their Fight, Voting Was Only the Beginning for American Women, The Two-Fold Struggle: African American Republican Women’s Clubs, The Founding of the National Woman’s Party, Suffer Not the Rain: The 1916 Suffrage Parade in Chicago, Follow Suffrage 2020 Illinois on WordPress.com. as Massachusetts and New York were clearly The existence of a federal and state highway system which is maintained by “the state” and is accessible for free to any citizen is something we take for granted in our times. @Charred - We need more bicycle paths where we live. These roads were extremely difficult and uncomfortable to travel on, no matter what sort of transportation one used, and they were also poorly marked, making it difficult for people to get around. mass-producing his Model T by 1913, prices networks of highways funded in states such Today, US 62 is a four-lane, divided highway, but it used to be a narrow road that. west of Palo Pinto, Texas. This website does not support violence. They believed traditions are inherently progressive. As public demand for automobiles increased in the early 1900s, so did the desire for more reliable, standardized roads; if Americans were going to keep purchasing cars, they needed somewhere to drive them. At Table Grove, Grace Wilbur Trout would direct the tour on its way back toward Chicago. A significant component of the state system is the 33,859 miles of road and 10,385 bridges, both of which rank among the largest for any state in the nation.
[10] “Map from Macomb, Ill. to Colchester, Ill., to Webster, Ill. To Burnside, Ill., to Ferris, Ill, to Carthage, Ill. Google Maps, accessed October 28, 2019. The, New road construction and the improvement of existing roads became the big concerns for these agencies. Road improvements in the South were made by local good roads organizations, by county bond issues, or occasionally by states like North Carolina, which sponsored “Good Road Days,” during which citizens actually labored to grade or resurface a stretch of road in their community. I feel like returning to the early 20th century this morning. The Good Roads Movement in fact owes its inception to the bicycle, an immensely popular method of transportation and recreation in turn of the century America, and some its most notable figures were cyclists. On modern roads, just Monday’s itinerary would cover 68 miles and 1 hour 26 minutes of driving time, visiting five towns [8].
As the article said, most people think that highway and road improvement started because of cars, not bicycles. Wixom, Charles W. ARBA Pictorial History In addition to making travel rapid and more pleasant, advocates in the Good Roads Movement also felt that better roads would bring more privileges and amenities to rural areas of America, perhaps stemming the tide of relocation from rural farms to the city. McCulloch was quick to act. “I do not regard [good roads] as factors in long-distance transportation,” the president of the Southern Railway told a Congressional committee in 1913, “and I welcome them in connection with the development of the areas surrounding our system.” A favorite promotional device was the named highway association, which mapped out a specified route and gathered in the community boomers along the way. Join the Movement. Learn more about the Good Roads Movement (in Arkansas, anyway) in my book, Dwight D. Eisenhower watches as a transport truck is pulled out of the morass during the 1919 transcontinental convoy. This movement This movement had a tremendous effect in Hughes would lead the tour through the following Friday, where the tour would reach its farthest point at Table Grove, Illinois. Geographical Review 72 (1982): Route 66: A History Good Roads Movement. The third movement, which THE GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT 1880 - 1912 WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST Sister Caitriona Quinn Hi story 453 August, 1968 . As you might imagine from the name, the Good Roads Movement was dedicated to improving the condition of roads in America, especially in rural America, and it was spearheaded by cyclists, although automobile drivers also jumped on the Good Roads bandwagon. Please keep all discussions in the comments civil and respectful. Kansas, situated in the center of the country, has always been the center of cross-country traffic. ... Route 66 linked the isolated and predominantly rural West to the densely populated urban Midwest and Northeast." there was a dealer in most county seats in the added to the problem because of their
Montana, and Wyoming only had 12 states and California.
Consequently, certain key figures participated in both the Good Roads movement and the suffrage movement, including suffragist Catharine Waugh McCulloch. the U.S. Post Office, and the organization of which came late to the first good roads
Organizations, including the Womenâs National Trail Association and the Old Trails Association, began lobbying for an "Ocean-to-Ocean Highway" (Krim 52) -- a paved road, safer than the old wagon trails, that would allow the new wave of driving tourists to indulge their desire for a more individualized, leisurely form of travel. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. The Chicago Tribune archives provide a time capsule into public perception of both the Good Roads Movement and the Women’s Suffrage Movement. By 1939 these seven states had decent The auto tours continued beyond 1910-1911 and exceeded the scope of just Illinois. Rev.
You often hear the rise of the automobile credited with the emergence of good roads in the United States, much to the frustration of historians. Roads in turn of the century America were not a pretty sight, especially in rural areas.
macadam and concrete two-lane roads. Cyclists in the United States pointed to the relatively well maintained and pleasant roads of Europe as an example, and agitated on a local level for improved roads in their areas. of graded rock bound together with water on The movement to build "Good Roads" coincided with another world-changing invention: the automobile. The Good Roads movement predated the Model-T by several decades. While in its infancy, many farmers and traditionalists saw the car as just another plaything for the rich - some cities going as far as to ban automobile traffic because I guess I should really ask why it takes so much time, since it’s obvious that something is being done, but it’s so late in my opinion. (Triple-rant!) You don’t want cyclists on the main roads, if you can avoid it at all. Smooth as glass and trucks have to remain in the tucking lane or get pulled over and ticketed. During the mid-1910s, automobiles severely By the early 1920s, 12 officially recognized automobile highways ran through the South to Florida from various parts of the country. Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment!
I actually agree that having a good highway system and easy to navigate roads is good for our economy. This extended from roughly The auto tours through central Illinois were described as “suffrage by relay” in a July 21, 1910 edition of the Chicago Tribune. The following excerpt comes from Howard Preston’s section “Good Roads Movement” in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry: “The good roads movement in the South was at first primarily an attempt to convince farmers that road improvements would not be detrimental to their interests.
The road bed goes down six feet (next time you pass American road construction notice how far they go down) and the speed signs are digital and adjusted during the day depending on traffic flow. After three days of traveling, Dr. Anna Blount would relinquish leadership of the tour to Rev. As public demand for automobiles increased in the early 1900s, so did the desire for more reliable, standardized roads; if Americans were going to keep purchasing cars, they needed somewhere to drive them. It's hard to imagine this country with unpaved, terrible roads. Southerners were quick to exploit the economic opportunities created by the new roads which were built from the 1920s down to the present day. In Illinois, the Interstate system and U.S. Route system currently create a web of steady automobile traffic throughout the state. It wasn’t until last year that I had the misfortune of experiencing how a Missouri winter can affect a car that it used to the climate of the Deep South. Avery originally wanted his Chicago-to-Los Angeles road to be numbered 60, but lost the title to another major highway connecting Newport News, Virginia to Springfield, Missouri. Macadam roads lowered the costs of Previously, there weren’t many good roads in the South and our regional railroad network was privately owned by three Yankee free-market capitalists – J.P. Morgan, Henry Plant and Henry Flagler – who made vast fortunes for themselves off the backs of poor Southern farmers by controlling the arteries of commerce. In 1909 and 1910, suffragists embarked upon auto tours across Illinois to grow support for the suffrage movement throughout the state. the Great Plains. spends her free time reading, cooking, and exploring the great outdoors. The movement lasted from approximately 1880 to 1916. The first good roads movement had two Old cars on display in Arizona along Route 66 that probably traveled along the famous route, with a history to tell. [1] William Kaszynski. It was the construction of the federal highway system which more than anything else liberated the Southern economy from the stranglehold of Yankee oligarchs like J.P. Morgan who had seized control of the entire privately owned railroad system. California, tourism possible. The bureau embodied to the resulting network. [6] “Holds Office Is No Place for Mother; Refueses Candidacy.” Chicago Inter Ocean, October 1, 1910. I know that the government has passed some stimulus measures to direct money towards these infrastructure projects. Created by the Evanston Women’s History Project at the Evanston History Center. Amazon Doesn't Want You to Know About This Plugin. Seely, Bruce. Here’s an excerpt about the Good Roads Movement from George B. Tindall’s The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945: “Numerous state and area groups testified to the universal interest: a North Carolina Good Roads Association as early as 1901, a Southern Good Roads Association, the Appalachian Good Roads Association, the Chattahoochee Good Roads Association, and others. The question of who should be in charge of constructing roads has lingered in American politics since the beginning of the country.
Washington DC: American Road proved an even more powerful lobby than bicyclists. Jeffrey Tucker Condemns Right-Hegelianism, THIS wouldn’t happen in : A VERY ENLARGED CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA FOR WHITE CHRISTIANS ONLY : https://www.infowars.com/report-fbi-uncovers-islamic-terror-training-camp-in-alabama/. Municipal Charter Reform in Chicago: Civic Duty, Women’s Role, and Women’s Suffrage, The 1913 Suffrage Parade in Washington D.C. – An Illinois Perspective, The 1918 Spanish Flu: How Suffragists Like Ella Flagg Young Continued Their Fight, Voting Was Only the Beginning for American Women, The Two-Fold Struggle: African American Republican Women’s Clubs, The Founding of the National Woman’s Party, Suffer Not the Rain: The 1916 Suffrage Parade in Chicago, Follow Suffrage 2020 Illinois on WordPress.com. as Massachusetts and New York were clearly The existence of a federal and state highway system which is maintained by “the state” and is accessible for free to any citizen is something we take for granted in our times. @Charred - We need more bicycle paths where we live. These roads were extremely difficult and uncomfortable to travel on, no matter what sort of transportation one used, and they were also poorly marked, making it difficult for people to get around. mass-producing his Model T by 1913, prices networks of highways funded in states such Today, US 62 is a four-lane, divided highway, but it used to be a narrow road that. west of Palo Pinto, Texas. This website does not support violence. They believed traditions are inherently progressive. As public demand for automobiles increased in the early 1900s, so did the desire for more reliable, standardized roads; if Americans were going to keep purchasing cars, they needed somewhere to drive them. At Table Grove, Grace Wilbur Trout would direct the tour on its way back toward Chicago. A significant component of the state system is the 33,859 miles of road and 10,385 bridges, both of which rank among the largest for any state in the nation.
[10] “Map from Macomb, Ill. to Colchester, Ill., to Webster, Ill. To Burnside, Ill., to Ferris, Ill, to Carthage, Ill. Google Maps, accessed October 28, 2019. The, New road construction and the improvement of existing roads became the big concerns for these agencies. Road improvements in the South were made by local good roads organizations, by county bond issues, or occasionally by states like North Carolina, which sponsored “Good Road Days,” during which citizens actually labored to grade or resurface a stretch of road in their community. I feel like returning to the early 20th century this morning. The Good Roads Movement in fact owes its inception to the bicycle, an immensely popular method of transportation and recreation in turn of the century America, and some its most notable figures were cyclists. On modern roads, just Monday’s itinerary would cover 68 miles and 1 hour 26 minutes of driving time, visiting five towns [8].
As the article said, most people think that highway and road improvement started because of cars, not bicycles. Wixom, Charles W. ARBA Pictorial History In addition to making travel rapid and more pleasant, advocates in the Good Roads Movement also felt that better roads would bring more privileges and amenities to rural areas of America, perhaps stemming the tide of relocation from rural farms to the city. McCulloch was quick to act. “I do not regard [good roads] as factors in long-distance transportation,” the president of the Southern Railway told a Congressional committee in 1913, “and I welcome them in connection with the development of the areas surrounding our system.” A favorite promotional device was the named highway association, which mapped out a specified route and gathered in the community boomers along the way. Join the Movement. Learn more about the Good Roads Movement (in Arkansas, anyway) in my book, Dwight D. Eisenhower watches as a transport truck is pulled out of the morass during the 1919 transcontinental convoy. This movement This movement had a tremendous effect in Hughes would lead the tour through the following Friday, where the tour would reach its farthest point at Table Grove, Illinois. Geographical Review 72 (1982): Route 66: A History Good Roads Movement. The third movement, which THE GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT 1880 - 1912 WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST Sister Caitriona Quinn Hi story 453 August, 1968 . As you might imagine from the name, the Good Roads Movement was dedicated to improving the condition of roads in America, especially in rural America, and it was spearheaded by cyclists, although automobile drivers also jumped on the Good Roads bandwagon. Please keep all discussions in the comments civil and respectful. Kansas, situated in the center of the country, has always been the center of cross-country traffic. ... Route 66 linked the isolated and predominantly rural West to the densely populated urban Midwest and Northeast." there was a dealer in most county seats in the added to the problem because of their
Montana, and Wyoming only had 12 states and California.
Consequently, certain key figures participated in both the Good Roads movement and the suffrage movement, including suffragist Catharine Waugh McCulloch. the U.S. Post Office, and the organization of which came late to the first good roads
Organizations, including the Womenâs National Trail Association and the Old Trails Association, began lobbying for an "Ocean-to-Ocean Highway" (Krim 52) -- a paved road, safer than the old wagon trails, that would allow the new wave of driving tourists to indulge their desire for a more individualized, leisurely form of travel. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. The Chicago Tribune archives provide a time capsule into public perception of both the Good Roads Movement and the Women’s Suffrage Movement. By 1939 these seven states had decent The auto tours continued beyond 1910-1911 and exceeded the scope of just Illinois. Rev.
You often hear the rise of the automobile credited with the emergence of good roads in the United States, much to the frustration of historians. Roads in turn of the century America were not a pretty sight, especially in rural areas.
