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By Don Audette
Rappahannock News Writer
In 1918, after World War I, money started to flow for improved roads. But, as usual, the nation’s small farmers were to get a raw deal. Section VIII of Article I of the U.S. Constitution in 1787, had given Congress the power to establish post offices and post roads, regulate commerce, provide for the common defense (and thus establish military roads for such), and promote the general welfare of the country.
These four criteria justified the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916. Things looked well for the small farmer.
Federal money was to be apportioned according to a state’s area, population, and postal road mileage. The government was to pay 50 percent of the cost, up to $10,000 a'mile, for any public road over which the U.S. mails passed, or were to pass, provided a state had a State highway department and a State highway system. In 1918, Virginia had both.
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