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appeared at the county, magisterial, and town level. Near to Rappahannock County, there was a “Good Roads Association” in Warren, Fauquier, and Culpeper counties.
The Virginia governor even proclaimed a “Good Roads Day,” to be celebrated in all of the schools. Children were assembled to hear his proclamation read to them, participate in debates on road issues, hear talks on road matters, and take the “good roads” word home to their parents.
Our board of supervisors became involved in the “Good Roads” movement when board members attended the fifth annual Virginia Road Builders’Association meeting in Richmond, in January 1916. They listened to three days of talks on road matters. They heard Virginia Governor Stuart and Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Winchester oppose the centralization of road building activities, as advocated by State Highway Commissioner, George P. Coleman.
The Governor and the Senator wanted local and county officials to run things, but the State Highway Commissioner’s proposal won over the delegates.
Rappahannock County gained some visibility at the conference when William G. Wood, of the Piedmont District, stood up and offered a vote of thanks to State Highway Commissioner Coleman. This was “vigorously and loudly voted by the convention.” As the sessions closed, Hampton District’s Wade H. Massie was elected to the executive committee of the Virginia Road Builder’s Association.
A few years later, Massie was to rise further, being appointed to the State Highway Commission, serving for 20 years.
When money from the 1916 Federal Aid Road Act
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