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vocal group of Americans expressed frustration with the state of rural roads in the late 1800s. Most early roads were built and maintained by private groups in the individual states through which they passed. Roads often were just spurs that did not really connect to other places or other roads. The majority of roads were just dirt. Rutted or covered with gravel, roads turned to mud in the winter and clouds of dust in the summer. They were simply impassable,