Throughout the Depression both federal and state governments levied gasoline taxes to finance massive road construction projects, which greatly improved tourism. Some travelers opted to visit newly opened national parks in the 1930s, such as Williamsburg, Virginia; the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee and North Carolina; Nags Head in North Carolina; and the National Shore Line on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Beginning in the.....
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