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History of Road Building in Georgia:
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Anonymous
1836 Map of Georgia. On File at Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Georgia, Athens.

Atlanta News Agency, Inc.
1967 Aerial View of the Massive Interchange Complex of Federal Highways I-75, I-85, and I-20. Historic Post Card Collection RG 48-2-5, Georgia Archives. Post Card hpc 1004.

Botwick, Brad, Summer Ciomeck, and J.W. Joseph
2006 Historical and Archaeological Investigations of a Corduroy RoadSegment Along U.S. 80, Effingham and Chatham Counties, Georgia. Report submitted to Georgia Department of Transportation, Atlanta, and Greenhorne and O’Mara, Marietta, by New South Associates, Inc., Stone Mountain, Georgia.

Bowen, Emanual
1748 A New Map of Georgia with Par of Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. On File at Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Georgia, Athens.

Carl Vinson Institute of Government
2006 Unicoi Turnpike Historical Marker. Photo and Description on Carl Vinson Institute of Government Web Page. University of Georgia, Athens.

Colton, J. H.
1860 Colton’s Georgia, Map of the State of Georgia. Johnson and Browning, New York.

Commissioner of Agriculture
1869 Country Roads and Road Laws. In Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year 1868, pp. 348-355. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.

Detroit Publishing Company
1915-1925 Truck in Rutted Road. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Call Number LC-D418-633.

Georgia Department of Transportation

1976 General Highway Map of Effingham County, Georgia. Atlanta.

1977 General Highway Map of Chatham County, Georgia. Atlanta.

Georgia Highway Department
1919 First Annual Report of the Highway Department of Georgia to the Governor and General Assembly of the State of Georgia. Highway Department of Georgia, Atlanta.

Dixie News Company
n.d. Palm Lined Ocean Highway, US 17 Near Savannah, Georgia. Historic Post Card Collection RG 48-2-5, Georgia Archives. Post Card hpc 1385.

Klein, Daniel and John Majewski
2004 “Turnpikes and Toll Roads in 19th Century America.” Edited by Robert Whaples, EH.net Encyclopedia. http://eh.net/encyclopedia/?article=Klein.Majewski.Turnpikes.

McCallie, S. W.
1901 A Preliminary on the Roads and Road-Building Materials of Georgia. George W. Harrision State Printer, Atlanta.

McKinnon, John
1825 Map of the City of Savannah. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia, Athens.

Penner, Bruce R.
2002 Archaeological Survey of the Post-Review Discovery of a Corduroy Road on the Route 134-Armistead Avenue North Bridge Replacement Project, City of Hampton, Virginia. Virginia Department of Transportation.

Platen, Charles
1996 Map of Chatham County, Georgia. Savannah. Scenic South Card Company n.d. Stone Mountain, 16 Miles from Atlanta, Georgia. Historic Post Card Collection RG 48-2-5, Georgia Archives. Post Card hpc 1442.

Sneden, Robert Knox
1861-65 Sherman’s March from Atlanta to the Sea: Drawn from the Official Map of Brig. General O.M. Poe, Chief Engineer. In the Robert Knox Sneden Diary. .

State Highway Board of Georgia
1926 Ninth Report of the State Highway Board of Georgia to the Governor and General Assembly of the State of Georgia. Stein Printing Company, Atlanta.

State Highway Board of Georgia
1931 Thirteenth Report of the State Highway Board of Georgia to the Governor and General Assembly of the State of Georgia for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1931.
Stein Printing Company, Atlanta.

1940 General Highway Map of Chatham County, Georgia. Atlanta.

General Highway Map of Effingham County, Georgia. Atlanta.

1953 General Highway Map of Chatham County, Georgia. Atlanta.

General Highway Map of Effingham County, Georgia. Atlanta.

Steinholtz, Robert T. and Brian Vachowski
2001 “Wetland Trail Design and Construction.” U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Missoula Technology and Development Center, Missoula, MT. Available at www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/fspubs/01232833/index.htm.

U. S. Corps of Engineers
1920 USGS 15 Minute Topographic Map, Meldrim Quadrangle. Washington, D. C.

Vanishing Georgia
Georgia Division of Archives and History, Office of Secretary of State
1890 Photographs of Convicts on a Chain Gang, Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, between 1890 and 1910. Image ric017.

1900 Henry Tubbesing—Owner of Market at River Drive and Tuberson Ave, Tunderbolt, Georgia. Image ctm028.

1904 Photograph of Frank Alderman, a Rural Mail Carrier, Pavo, Thomas County, Georgia. Image tho192.

1905 Photograph of African American Couple in Buggy, Thomasville, Thomas County, Georgia, ca. 1905. Image tho360.

1906 Photograph of Workers Pouring Concrete on South Broad Street, Thomasville, Thomas County, Georgia. Image tho051.

1909 Rockdale County’s first highway
Rockdale County, ca. 1909. Convicts Working on What May Have Been the First Graded Road in the County. Image roc063.

1910a Photograph of Regina Elizabeth Rambo Benson Driving on Glidden Road Tour, Georgia. Image cob712.

1910b Photograph of Glidden Road Tour Scene, Georgia. Image cob711.

1910c Photograph of Men Surveying Progress of Construction of Dixie Highway, Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Georgia. Image ben265.

1918 Photograph of Men on Horseback Working on a Road, Gwinnet County, Georgia. Image gwn001.

1920 Photograph of Men Repairing the Streets, Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia, 1920s. Image gwn331.

1923 Photograph of a Country Road, Dekalb County. Image dek047-82.

1924 Photograph of Highway 52 Construction, Lumpkin County, Georgia, between 1921 and 1924. Image lum167.

1925 Photograph of Convicts Working on a Road, Troup County, Georgia.
Image trp193.

1930 Photograph of Workers Who Constructed Road to Top of Black Rock Mountain, Rabun County, Georgia, ca. 1930-1931.
Image rab145.

1931 Photograph of Men Using a Mule to Grade the Road to the Top of Black Rock Mountain, Rabun County, Georgia.
Image rab148.

1940 Photograph of a Family Taking a Ride in a Wagon, Millidgeville, Baldwin, County, Georgia, 1940s.
Image bal093.

1941 Photograph of an African-American Midwife Walking Down a Road, Siloam, Greene County, Georgia.
Image grn034.

Weingroff, Richard F. 1996 “Federal Aid Road Act of 1916: Building the Foundation.”
In Public Roads [online journal]. Vol. 60.1, Summer 1996. Available at www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/summer96/p96su2.htm.

2005 United States Route 80, The Dixie Overland Highway.
Federal Highway Administration website

Wikipedia 2006 “Corduroy Road.”
In Wikipedia [online database]. Available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corduroy.

Woodbury, D.B. 1862a Engineers Building Corduroy Road, Richmond, Virginia, Vicinity.
Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865, Compiled by Hirst D. Milholland and Donald H. Mugridge. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (1977). Library of Congress Call Number LC-B815-656.

Grapevine Bridge
Built May 27-28, 1862 by the 5th New Hampshire Infantry Under Colonel Edward E. Cross, Chickahominy River, Virginia. Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865, Compiled by Hirst D. Milholland and Donald H. Mugridge. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (1977). Library of Congress Call Number LC-B817-7383.