Dewitt C. Greer correspondence, 1959-1981, (bulk 1970-1981)
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Texas. State Department of Highways and Public Transportation
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The 35th Legislature, House Bill 2, created the Texas State Highway Department in 1917 to aid counties in the construction and maintenance of state highways and to provide for state motor vehicle registration. In 1924 the department assumed active control from the counties for the maintenance and construction of highways. In 1969 the legislature created the Texas Mass Transportation Commission, which was merged with the Highway Department in 1975 to create the State Department of Hi...
Greer, Dewitt Carlock
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Although born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Dewitt Carlock Greer, 1902-1986, grew up in Pittsburg, Texas. He received a degree in civil engineering from the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University) in 1923. He worked in a variety of positions, as a landscape engineer, constructing parks, and city engineer, before joining the Texas Highway Department (now the Texas Department Transportation) as an engineer in 1928. At the Highway Department,...
