COUNTRY ROADS 



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Courtesy of the National Paving Brick Mfg. Ass'n, Cleveland, Ohio 



Fig. 102. A brick road needs but little care or repair and brings 

 the market nearer. 



shafts for a horse and were thus rolled along these 

 roads to the river landings by horse power. Sup- 

 plies for the plantations were hauled homeward in 

 rude carts. 



Our Early Roads. Save the Cumberland road, 

 our national Government has done very little road 

 building. The task of constructing good highways 

 through rough and hilly sections has been poorly 

 done and at great expense. Tn the early days many 

 long roads were made and paid for by private par- 

 ties, who then made every one who wished to use 



