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By 20s, paving had become a priority as cars crowded roads
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By the 1920s, Gainesville long had been a trade center, and more automobiles were filling its streets. With more people owning cars, demands for improving roads increased. Leaders in Hall, Stephens and Habersham counties came together in the early 1930s to push for paving a route through their counties.