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Lincoln Highway

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Lincoln Highway
Lincoln Highway
Lincoln Highway
Lincoln Highway
Lincoln Highway
Lincoln Highway
Lincoln Highway
Lincoln Highway
Lincoln Highway
Lincoln Highway
Lincoln Highway
Lincoln Highway
Lincoln Highway
Lincoln Highway
Lincoln Highway
Phone:
(307) 514-5424

Address:
Route 30, Cheyenne, WY

The Lincoln Highway was one of the earliest transcontinental highways for automobiles across the United States of America. Conceived in 1912 by Indiana entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, and formally dedicated October 31, 1913, the Lincoln Highway ran coast-to-coast from Times Square in New York City west to Lincoln Park in San Francisco, originally through 13 states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and California. In 1915, the Colorado Loop was removed, and in 1928, a realignment relocated the Lincoln Highway through the northern tip of West Virginia. Thus, there are a total of 14 states, 128 counties, and more than 700 cities, towns and villages through which the highway passed at some time in its history. The first officially recorded length of the entire Lincoln Highway in 1913 was 3,389 miles . Over the years, the road was improved and numerous realignments were made, and by 1924 the highway had been shortened to 3,142 miles . Counting the original route and all of the subsequent realignments, there have been a grand total of 5,872 miles .The Lincoln Highway was gradually replaced with numbered designations after the establishment of the U.S. Numbered Highway System in 1926, with most of the route becoming part of U.S. Route 30 from Pennsylvania to Wyoming. After the Interstate Highway System was formed in the 1950s, the former alignments of the Lincoln Highway were largely superseded by Interstate 80 as the primary coast-to-coast route from the New York City area to San Francisco.
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