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Bulloch History with Roger Allen: The Southern 'good roads' movement takes hold
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Roger Allen
Note: The following is one of a series of columns looking at the first road systems in Georgia and Bulloch County. The first issue of "Southern Good Roads" (1910) interviewed G. Grosvenor Dawe, the managing director of the new Southern Commercial Congress, whose mission was to "sell" the South's prosperity. Dawe declared, "One cannot touch the good roads movement without realizing the (importance of) publications within ... the south."
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