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The Last Word
Squatting for subway tickets, skydiving into a moving Mustang convertible and the Lincoln Highway’s 100th anniversary are featured.
December 4, 2013
Roadbuilding
First coast-to-coast highway celebrates 100th birthday
The Lincoln Highway, the transcontinental highway that could take motorists from coast to coast,  has turned 100 years old. The highway now is made up of “a patchwork of already existing roads,” Kay Shelton, president of the Lincoln Highway Association and a Norther Illinois University professor told NPR. The route was intended to be the […]
November 8, 2013
Technology
On Record
Coast to coast By Marcia Gruver Doyle When you consider Carl Fisher’s original vision – a $10 million privately funded coast-to-coast gravel road – the Lincoln Highway met expectations and then some. The Lincoln Highway – now a nostalgia route more than a name on a map – was the granddaddy of national highways. Fisher, […]
May 4, 2011
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