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The Lincoln Highway
(proposed
in 1912)
The Lincoln Highway was the
first improved coast-to-coast highway in America. It ran east-west from
New York on the Atlantic coast to San Francisco on the Pacific coast.
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“The
Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road
with a personality, a distinctive work of which the Americans of future
generations can point with pride - an economic but also artistic
triumph.”
— Carl Fisher
(1914)
quoted in Greetings From The Lincoln Highway: America's First Coast-to Coast Road
by Brian Butko
quoted in Greetings From The Lincoln Highway: America's First Coast-to Coast Road
by Brian Butko
“The Highways of America are built chiefly of
politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or
concrete.”
— Carl Fisher
“A road across the United States; Let’s build it before we’re too old to enjoy it.”
— Carl Fisher
“Open to lawful traffic of all descriptions without toll charges.”
— Carl Fisher
from the Proclamation announcing the route
by the Lincoln Highway Association, 13 Sep 1913
by the Lincoln Highway Association, 13 Sep 1913
