This work is informed by the book "Lost Towns and Roads of America" by J.R. Humphreys.
"I guess I love roads, any kind of roads at all ... they begin like rivers: starting as trickles, growing to creeks—the way country roads join and become the hard, long rivers that are highways. And highways, like rivers, all flow to the sea—where we came from and where, by and large, we'll all return in a good rain some time hence." - Humphreys