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time, tanners went daily by horse and buggy to towns, to markets, to schools, to churches, to social events, and carried out general visiting. Better roads were needed to enhance living in rural areas and to cut down on the number of people flocking to the cities. Otherwise, who would be left to feed the city folks?
Therefore, in 1916, it looked as if farmers were finally to get “out of the mud” and be able to drive on good roads to carry out their business and live satisfactory lives. But, the plans for the farmer were highjacked by the moneyed-interests. The “Good Roads” movement was being taken over by the proponents of national highways, coast-tocoast roads, Canada-to-the-Gulf of Mexico “trunk” routes, and “peacock boulevards,” leaving rural road boosters to die on the vine. For example, note the recipients of a mail-out by the Program Committee of the Virginia Good Roads Association for their Ninth Annual Convention set for midJanuary 1920. They listed “bankers, manufacturers, merchants, auto dealers and owners,” and, almost as an afterthought, “farmers and other interests.”
This shift had been going on for a decade. One early highway for the wealthy was the QuebecMiami International Highway, lb get between those two points, the Quebec-Miami highway was strung together using local
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