Moments in Kentucky
Legislative History

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State Highways

The Kentucky General Assembly passed an act, approved March 16, 1920, creating a Department of State Roads and Highways, providing for construction of rural post roads under the provisions of federal law, and establishing a primary system of state highways with at least one main state road in each county.

Road crew at work in Lee County, circa 1930.

Road crew at work in Lee County, circa 1930. C. Frank Dunn Collection. KHS Collections.

 
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