The Good Roads Movement occurred in the United States between the late 1870s and the 1920s. It was the rural dimension of the Progressive movement. The...

state prosper.: 7  Impressed with Missouri's Good Roads Movement, Avery joined the Oklahoma Good Roads Association. He also served as president of the...

benefit from good country roads. Later on, macadam roads did not hold up to higher-speed motor vehicle use. Methods to stabilise roads with tar date...

industries. Movement along roads may be by bike, automobile, bus, truck, or by animal such as horse or oxen. Standard networks of roads were adopted...

days of the car, and the American Automobile Association joined the good roads movement begun during the earlier bicycle craze; when manufacturers and petroleum...

roads. Unmetalled roads, also known as gravel roads or dirt roads, are rough and can sustain less weight. Road surfaces are frequently marked to guide traffic...

expanded the state capitol building, supported public education and the Good Roads Movement and opposed the Martin Organization. However, later as U.S. Congressman...

in U.S. periodicals in 1898 was by bicycle makers), promoted the Good Roads Movement (which had the side benefit of acting as advertising, and of improving...

secondary highways, and tertiary roads. Components of the system—comprising 16,900 kilometres (10,500 mi) of roads and 2,880 bridges —range in scale...

for the improvement of roads and highways in the United States long before the advent of the automobile. The Good Roads Movement in the late 19th century...

an American civic leader, suffragist, and editor, active in the Good Roads Movement in North Carolina. Harriet Morehead Berry was born in 1877 in Hillsborough...

portrait depicts him with a bicycle, was a supporter of the Good Roads Movement, a national road improvement initiative led by bicyclists. In 1892, Ladd wrote...

is best known for his support of paved city and state roads as part of the Good Roads Movement and leading a thirty-year effort to elevate railroad tracks...

Horatio Sawyer Earle (1855–1935), known as the "Father of Good Roads" or simply Horatio "Good Roads" Earle, was an American transport engineer. Earle was...

bicycling organization. The League was instrumental in establishing the Good Roads Movement. In fall 2013, Newport was designated a Bronze Bicycle Friendly Community...

in attracting capital, rapidly increasing traffic congestion, the Good Roads Movement, urban sprawl, tax policies favoring private vehicle ownership, taxation...

involvements covered a range of causes such as: The promotion of the Good Roads Movement The establishment of the Everglades National Park Support for the...

Goodnight-Loving Trail Texas Road (Shawnee Trail) The Good Roads Movement established in May 1860 agitated for better roads for bicyclists. At the turn...

Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. After the war, he helped start the Good Roads Movement in Iowa. Pryce was born in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania in 1841. He came...

tireless proponent for good roads—despite the fact that, as he once told the Senate Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, "I do not even own an automobile...

founding and leading the national Good Roads Movement. Their model for political organization, as well as the paved roads for which they argued, facilitated...

or Van Dyke Road elsewhere. The highway has also been named the Earle Memorial Highway for one of the pioneers of the Good Roads Movement and Michigan's...

(paved) by 1907, and SE 39th Avenue was improved as part of the Good Roads Movement in 1910. These, as well as other factors, led to the demise of the...

Route Association had been established in Nebraska as part of the Good Roads Movement. The Association had laid out the route of the Omaha-Lincoln-Denver...

Woman's Clubs for twenty years. She was also an advocate for the Good Roads Movement. Lena H. Culver was born in Laurence, Michigan, the second of five...

One could be fast on a decent road, but many roads were still so bad, that the U.S. already had a Good Roads Movement in the late 19th century, as increased...

better roads to use for travel, and these road enthusiasts formed groups to advance their cause. A group of Arkansas cyclists held a good roads convention...

permanent marker placed in 1923 by the federal government, funded by the Good Roads Movement. However, the Capitol building is used as the zero point for the...

Morehead Berry Freeway through Orange County, named for a leader in the Good Roads Movement in North Carolina. Between US 15/US 501 in Chapel Hill to I-885/NC 885...

Democrat. He was involved in the good roads movement, and in 1935 he introduced an unsuccessful bill to limit road speeds on Wisconsin highways. In 1958...