National highways map of the state of South Carolina : showing one thousand miles of national highways / proposed by the National Highways Association

Relief shown by shading and contours. Includes information on the population to be served by proposed roads. "Published under direction of General Coleman Du Pont, Chairman Board of National Councillors, Charles Henry Davis, C.E., President; Frederic R. Hutton, M.E., Sc. D., General Secretary." "Copyright, 1913 by ... ."The National Highways Association (NHA) was established in 1911 to promote the development of an improved national road network in the United States. Under the slogan “Good roads for everyone!” the NHA advocated the building and permanent maintenance by the federal government of a system of 50,000 miles (some 80,500 kilometers) of highways. This map, issued by the NHA in 1913, shows 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) of national highway proposed for South Carolina. The NHA employed engineers to plan routes that would maximize the percentage of each state’s population served by these highways. The note at the bottom indicates that 69 percent of the population of the state lived in counties through which the proposed highways would pass, while another 29 percent lived in adjoining counties. Besides issuing brochures and circulars aimed at convincing citizens of the need for a national road system, the NHA was a prolific producer of maps. Cartographic work was done at an office in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, where approximately 40 people were employed on the property of Charles Henry Davis (1865–1951), president and cofounder of the NHA. Davis believed that these maps would be helpful to a national highways commission that he hoped would be established and that they would assist the states in integrating their roads into a national system. Congress never embraced the plan put forward by the NHA, but the organization and its maps helped to promote the cause of a national road network.Color1:2,500,00