(Note: The following is part of a series of articles looking at the growth of roads and transportation in Georgia and Bulloch County beginning in 1807.) In 1916, the United States Congress passed the Federal Aid Road Act, in which $75 million was given to the states to create a system of paved highways. The Savannah Automobile Club had sponsored a fact-finding tour of the state’s roads in the summer of 1914. Starting in Savannah, the group caravanned across the state to Columbus.As a result of the trip, they created the Dixie Overland Highway Association, whose specific purpose was to urge the creation of paved road from the Atlantic Ocean to the Alabama state line.