I'm here to rant that loop highways and bypasses are stupid ideas.

The Texas & Pacific Railway Depot in Pilot Point, Denton County, Texas was abandoned in 1961 and put up for sale in 1964.

When Route 66 served as the main highway through Amarillo, the Triangle Motel on the east side was the first place west-bound travelers saw.

The northwestern portions of the Ozark Trail were subsumed by the federal highway project designated as US 66, aka the original Route 66.

The New Year edition of the Wichita Daily Times from 1919 highlights all of the new interstate highways that cover Texas.

From 1893 to 1920, Rainy Mountain Indian School "Americanized" children from the Kiowa and Apache tribes, and now lies as an unmarked ruin.

The Central National Road connected Dallas, Texas to Washington, Arkansas.

Calera (Bryan County, Choctaw Nation, Oklahoma) began life as Cale Switch in 1872.

Today, Grand Ecore is referred to mainly as a geological feature, but there is a TON of human history on this bluff.

In 1931, the toll bridge at the former Sacra's Ferry site across from Brown Springs closed for good in favor of a free bridge a upstream.

Garland City petitioned for a bridge over the Red River, but someone (still a mystery!) exploded it in 1930.

Fort Jesup, erected in 1822 along the Camino de Real (Spanish Road) replaced Fort Claiborne of 1804.

US 80, formerly known as the Dixie Overland Highway, merges with the Bankhead Highway and is the mother road of the Red River Valley.

The Good Roads Movement was the brainchild of two inventions: the Safety Bicycle and the Automobile.

Shreveport was prominently featured in Green Books

The Butterfield Overland Mail Route was the first transcontinental road in the United States.

Several years ago, I drove the entire Belt Line Road that circles around Dallas County, and I did it again this past month.

Before it was the Bankhead Highway, it was the Southern National Highway

The toll bridge at Sowell's Bluff at the Red River, between Fannin County, Texas and Bryan County, Oklahoma collapsed in 1934.

The upper portion of this 1840 map by General Cooke of Grayson and Fannin counties shows a number of places that no longer exist