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Dirt-Road America
"What do you see when you escape the pavement?"

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/dirt-road-america

In 1960, around sixty-five per cent of the country’s roads were unpaved. This figure has declined continually for the past half century. Roads are meant to facilitate high-speed transit and efficient commerce between population centers; dirt roads are neither high-speed nor efficient. Asphalt roads began to outnumber dirt ones by the early nineteen-eighties. Around that time, the writer William Least Heat-Moon set out to ride what he called the country’s “blue highways”—the county roads colored blue on his Rand McNally road atlas. In “Blue Highways: A Journey into America,” Heat-Moon described his impulse as a “wish for the road to lead me into some kind of new life.” The small road beckoned because it was “a place where a man can lose himself,” and also because of where it led: into the “sticks, the boondocks, the burgs, backwaters, jerkwaters, the wide-spots-in-the-road, the don’t-blink-or-you’ll-miss-it-towns. Into those places where you say, ‘My God! What if you lived here!’ The Middle of Nowhere.”


https://www.nal.usda.gov/collections/stories/dirt-roads

At the beginning of the year 1913, 90 percent, or approximately 2,000,000 miles, of the roads in this country were earth.

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/back0508.cfm

Many of our Nation's roadways were once dirt and mud paths until the early to mid–1800s. A modern movement at that time called for the building of wooden roads, a great improvement in transportation. These planks-boards-were laid over the roadway on log foundations in various lengths, but most were eight feet long. Built for wagons, the width of the roads was 12 feet or more. In downtown areas the roads were wider.
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