ROAD TRIP: Historic Lincoln Highway, AKA; U.S. 1, 30, 530, 40, and 50
WASHINGTON: Most people driving down the country’s interstate highway system have no appreciation of how it all came to be. They mistakenly figure Uncle Sam, and our Washington, D.C. government must have taken the lead. However, the first interstate paved road was conceived in 1912 by Indiana entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, formally dedicated on October ...