Discover America on The Lincoln Highway

 

The Lincoln Highway is the first road for automobiles across the United States of America. Conceived in 1912 by the president of Prest-O-Lite Company of Indianapolis, Indiana, Carl G. Fisher, and formally dedicated October 31, 1913, the Lincoln Highway runs coast-to-coast from Times Square in New York City west to Lincoln Park in San Francisco. Originally running through 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.

The first officially recorded length of the entire Lincoln Highway in 1913 was 3,389 miles. With realignments over the years, the Lincoln Highway was gradually replaced with numbered designations after the establishment of the U.S. Numbered Highway System in 1926. After the Interstate Highway System was formed in the mid-1950s, the former alignments of the Lincoln Highway were largely superseded by Interstate 80. Detailed state chapters can be found HERE.