Well, here are my pics of my visit to our local piece of Mother Road :) - the Lincoln Highway was the brainchild of the man who founded the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Just after the First World War, the Lincoln Highway Association began and cities and towns along a route from Times Square (Broadway and 42nd, NYC) to San Francisco built "seedling miles." From these "seedling miles" of brick-paved road grew the first automotive travel highway in America. One of its early notable uses was when the woman evangelist Aimee Semple Macpherson (founder of the Foursquare Gospel Church and a Bible college which is now Biola University) became the first woman to travel cross-country by car, small children and Gospel meeting tent in tow! Much of the route is covered by US Highway 30 and Interstate 80 today, but sections of the original (circa 1915) brick pavement may still be found. For more information on the LH you may want to check out the modern Lincoln Highway Association website. Two other great pages for information and photos of The Old Road *wink* are http://www.aaroads.com and http://www.us-highways.com.
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