On September 6, 1919, the U.S. Army’s Cross-Country Motor Transport Train arrived in San Francisco. Its journey spanned 62 days, and after leaving Washington, D.C. on July 7, the Motor Transport Train traveled 3,251 miles.
Col. Charles W. McClure, the convoy’s commander, formally confirmed...
Sunday is October 31, so there will be Halloween parties, trick-or-treating and shenanigans across the nation. But October 31 is also the anniversary of the dedication of the Lincoln Highway, which occurred on that day in 1913.
What is the Lincoln Highway?
The Lincoln Highway was named for President Abraham Lincoln. It was the first transcontinental road for automobiles in the United States. It was over 3,000 miles...
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The Good Roads Movement was a broad-based effort to construct and improve the condition of U.S. roads in the late 1800s that lasted until the National Highway System was begun by the federal government in 1926.
Interestingly, the movement was started not by early auto or truck users, but by bicyclists back in the 1870s. However, the effort expanded greatly after automobiles began to proliferate.
League of American Wheelmen
Bicycles were introduced...
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On this date in 1932, the George Westinghouse Memorial Bridge officially opened in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A newspaper account at the time characterized the bridge as “the most recent link in Pennsylvania’s maze of beautiful highways.”
Construction of the bridge began in 1929. The bridge was named for engineer and electrical industry pioneer George Westinghouse. His Westinghouse Electric...