Good Roads Day

Good Roads Day Event Button Museum
Category
Event
Additional Images
Good Roads Day button back Event Button Museum
Text on Button MILWAUKEE COUNTY GOOD ROADS DAY OCTOBER 21 GOOD ROADS LIGHTEN LOADS
Image Description

Blue text on white center circle, white text on blue outer border.
Back Paper / Back Info

Made by F. E. JENS CO.
Enterprise Bldg.
Milwaukee, Wis.
Back Style
Unlocking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
1 1/4 inch
Year / Decade Made
1916
The Manufacturer
F.E. Jens Co.
Additional Information

Over 25,000 buttons were created and distributed to commemorate the Good Roads Day celebration in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 21, 1916.  The festivities included a parade highlighting the areas best roads, a ceremony for the building progress of highways in the area, and special visits from good road experts from around the United States.
Sources

Chilton Company (1916, October 12). Good Roads Activities. Motor Age 30 (14-26), pp.52. Retrieved from: https://books.google.com/books?id=83xCAQAAMAAJ
Catalog ID EV0389