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Vintage vehicles pass through the unincorporated town of Rice east of Concordia during the first Kansas White Way car run in 2006. This year’s car run celebrates the 100th anniversary of the inaugural car run in 1914.
At the beginning of the 20th century, there was no organized network of connecting highways in any state in the union, author Pete Davis wrote in his book, American Road.“In the rural United States as late as 1907,” he said, “there was not one single mile of paved road. In short, when the car appeared, there was nothing for it to drive on.”Colonel Albert Augustus Pope, a Toledo bicycle…
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