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members his father starting out before dawn with a wagon load of extract wood for the tannery in Luray. “He’d leave one morning and stay over night, return the next day with a load of hay.” With travel so time consuming and arduous, a trip was never wasted. “He always had a load each way,” the Highway Department retiree said.
Snow removal on those early roads was hit and miss. “It was mostly done by horses pulling drags. And there was a lot of shoveling if somebody needed to go anywhere,” he recalled.
But despite all the inconveniences to travelers, those were the good ol’ days for Highway Department workers, at least from one angle. There were few complaints from road users back then, according to Roy Atkins. “It started about four or five, maybe ten years ago.
There’s been more squawking 'bout road conditions since then than there ever was before,” he concluded, chuckling.
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