Historic Hood River
Fine Roads
3-9-2022
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.
JKG
Looks quite a bit like East Side Road. Texas still maintains the prefix “Farm to Market” on many of their roads today…
Jeff Bryant
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.
Arlen L Sheldrake
appears a couple of “road apples” fell off the wagon……
Jeffrey W Bryant
This looks like it could be the Eastside Grade.
LWH
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Jeff Bryant
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.