Good Roads Movement

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1. Conventions

   Meetings organized around road-building demonstrations.

2. Donations

   Contributed labor and materials for demonstration roads.

3. Effingham

   Illinois stop of the 1901 demonstration train.

4. Farmers

   Rural audience for road improvement demonstrations.

5. Flossmoor

   Illinois stop of the 1901 demonstration train.

6. Machinery

   Road-building equipment carried on demonstration trains.

7. Martin Dodge

   Federal road official involved in the Good Roads movement.

8. Object Lessons

   Road construction demonstrations used to teach methods.

9. Officials

   Community decision makers addressed by road demonstrators.

10. Procession

    Public march marking the opening of demonstration work.

11. Publicity

    Campaigns used to draw crowds to road demonstrations.

12. Pullman Car

    Railway accommodation planned for road experts and operators.

13. Road Experts

    Specialists who taught road construction on demonstration tours.

14. Saginaw

    Michigan city hosting a 1902 road demonstration.

15. Vicksburg

    Mississippi stop of the 1901 demonstration train.