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3-9-2022
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Notes

This is from the album Benjamin Gifford prepared for the Hood River Commercial Club. The message was clear: The Hood River valley has fine, well-cared for roads to get your crops to market. I recently learned the county road systems were known as “Farm to Market Roads” in the early days, to differentiate them from the state roads.

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  1. JKG

    9th March 2022 @ 07:27 AM

    Looks quite a bit like East Side Road. Texas still maintains the prefix “Farm to Market” on many of their roads today…

  2. Jeff Bryant

    9th March 2022 @ 07:48 AM

    I may be wrong, but I associated the Farm to Market roads with concrete road projects on the outskirts of town, such as Tucker Road to Idlewilde cemetery. Other roads were managed by road supervisors and were funded by the county.

  3. Arlen L Sheldrake

    9th March 2022 @ 08:58 AM

    appears a couple of “road apples” fell off the wagon……

  4. Jeffrey W Bryant

    9th March 2022 @ 12:54 PM

    This looks like it could be the Eastside Grade.

  5. LWH

    9th March 2022 @ 03:45 PM

    https://www.google.com/maps/@45.697476,-121.5026507,3a,75y,345.77h,74.13t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1snMPnr_gkW5BgzgIDgdrKVQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

  6. Jeff Bryant

    12th March 2022 @ 08:36 AM

    I’m looking at an old inventory of the county archives of Oregon for Hood River County, County Court. There is a section for road records, including a file drawer titled Market Roads, 1922-1931.

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