Lincoln Highway AssociationIn 1913, the Lincoln Highway Association was formed in the U.S. to promote a coast-to-coast road to be known as the Lincoln Highway, the idea of Carl Fisher. (He had created Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Miami Beach resort). He, and fellow industrialists Frank Seiberling and Henry Joy, envisioned an improved, hard-surfaced road stretching almost 3,400 miles from New York on the east coast to San Francisco on the west coast, by the shortest practical route. The Association encouraged private and corporate donations to help fund the road. The need for good roads led to the federal government building roads and the creation of numbered U.S. routes in the 1920s. An existing improved road in New Jeresey was the first named part of the Lincoln Highway on 13 Dec 1913.[References on the Web to 10 Sep 1913 as the opening date of the Lincoln Highway are obviously wrong.See Reference.] |
