At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners.
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In connecting the North and the South, the Dixie Highway helped end regional isolation and served as a model for future interstates.
Introduced in 1915, the Dixie Highway changed all that by merging hundreds of short roads into dual interstate routes that looped from Michigan to Miami and back.
In their place, a jumble of dirt roads covered the region like a bed of briars.
At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners