Erath County was once described as being honeycombed with rock walls. It was in the 1920s and 1930s, when desperate times forced most people to sell their rock walls to be crushed into gravel to pave around the square and area roads. In 1920, a gravel road replaced the sandy lane from Bluff Dale to the Comanche line. Then after cars became common, this road was destroyed in only three years. By 1935 the road was paved from Stephenville to Bluff Dale, but the Great Depression slowed efforts to pave further until various WPA programs completed paving.