Highway Superintendent

Rural Roads Before 1900

The first rural routes were one-foot-wide paths traced by deer, buffalo, and other animals, or tamped down by native Americans on foot. Pioneers of European heritage introduced horses and wheeled vehicles to the trails. Colonial governments, beginning with the Massachusetts General Court in 1639, laid out roads between towns, but few were actually constructed, and most long-distance travel in colonial times was by boat.

The most ambitious road project in the colonial era was the 1,300-mile King's Highway between Boston and Charleston, South Carolina, linking all thirteen colonies. The stretch between Boston and New York opened in 1673, and was widely known as the Boston Post Road because the route used for postal delivery. Four years earlier, a post road had opened from New York to Albany, and several others were constructed during the late seventeenth century to carry mail between the colonies. The entire King's Highway was completed in 1750.

1937	Francis Frank
1939	Francis Frank
1941	Francis Frank
1943	George Denny
1945	Calvin Woodin
1947	Calvin Woodin
1949	Calvin Woodin
1951	Calvin Woodin
1953	Calvin Woodin
1955	Calvin Woodin
1957	Calvin Woodin
1959	Calvin Woodin
1961	Calvin Woodin
1963	Calvin Woodin
1965	Calvin Woodin
1967	Earl P. Buckley, Sr.
1969	Earl P. Buckley, Sr.
1971	Earl P. Buckley, Sr.
1973	Earl P. Buckley, Sr.
1975	Earl P. Buckley, Sr.
1977	Earl P. Buckley, Sr.
1979	Edward Millus
1981	Edward Millus
1983	Edward Millus
1985	Edward Millus
1986	Robert Clark	Unexpired Term
1987	John Lynam
1989	John Lynam
1991	John Lynam
1993	John Lynam
1995	John Lynam
1997	John Lynam
1999	Joseph Garan
2001	Joseph Garan	Resigned
2002	William Knox
2003	Dave Temple
2005	Dave Temple