The Midland Trail was include in a 1912 AAA Auto map and guide.
it is a highway not a trail and was design as a highway for
Automobiles It is the first coast to coast highway. A. L. Westgaud
layout this route for the American Automoble Association. 1912.
There is a 1916 Midland Trail Guide that lays the route coast to
coast. It includes the West Virginia Section. It was renamed the
Roosevett highway some time before 1922. The 1916 guide listed as
Vice President Murray Boocock Keswick and Maj. Channing M. Blton,
W. Allen Perkins, Charolottesville and Rudojph Ortman, Greenwood.
Have you heard of these poeple?/ Rollin.Southwell@pgrimes.com