HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 29
(By Delegates C. White, Manchin, Proudfoot,
Martin and Ashley)
Requesting that Route 15, Point Mountain Road, be named the "Boyd
Dotson, Sr., Memorial Highway."
Whereas, Boyd Dotson, Sr., who passed away on December 7,
1980, a past member of the House of Delegates and newspaper
editor of the Webster Republican weekly newspaper in Webster
Springs, Webster County, spent nearly two years in waging an
editorial and news feature campaign promoting the construction
and modernization of Route 15 from Webster Springs for
approximately twenty miles to where it joins the modernized Route
15 in Randolph County, and through his extraordinary efforts
embodied in this campaign, the construction and modernization of
this stretch of highway became a reality; and
Whereas, The citizens of Webster and surrounding counties
have been greatly benefited due to the completion of this roadway
in 1944, to the extent it not only linked Webster County with the
previously modernized Route 15 in Randolph County onto the
intersection with U.S. Route 219 at Valley Head, but,
additionally, connected to Elkins and other points in the east,
including the nation's capitol, and, without the aforementioned efforts of Boyd Dotson, the benefits derived from the roadway may
never have been realized; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the section of Route 15 from Webster Springs, traveling
east for approximately twenty miles to the intersection with U.S.
Route 219 at Valley Head, be renamed the "Boyd Dotson, Sr.
Memorial Highway" and that signs be erected at appropriate
intervals to accordingly apprise motorists traveling thereon of
the name; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Clerk is hereby directed to
forward a copy of this resolution to the department of
transportation, the county commission of Webster County, and to
the family of Boyd Dotson, Sr.