HISTORY44 - Major Cross-Country Automobile Roads
My previous blog was about the history of Flagstaff, Arizona, a city in northern Arizona that was/is a stop on numerous cross-country transportation routes, including the famous Route 66 and today’s Interstate 40. That sparked a desire to learn more about the history of cross-country automobile roads, the subject of this blog. After a short introduction, I’ll talk about the history of the little-known transcontinental Lincoln Highway, the much more well-known Route 66, and finally, the Interstate Highway System. I’ll begin in 1912, the year America got serious, about longer distance roads. My principal sources include “A Brief History of the Lincoln Highway,” lincolnhighwayassoc.org/history/; “The History of Route 66,” national66.org/history-of-route-66; The Interstate Highway System,” history.com/topics/us-states/interstate-highway-system; “The Complex History of the United States Interstate Highway System,” interestingengineering.com; “Future Interstate Study...