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The Lincoln Highway: Coast to Coast from
Times Square to the Golden Gate
By Michael Wallis and Michael
S.
Williamson
(WW
Norton, New York and London, 2007 293 pages includes bibliography)
On May 10, 1869, a crowd gathered at Bringham City, Utah and a ceremonial
Golden Spike was driven into the last rail connecting the nation's first transcontinental
railroad. While steam locomotives had been part
of
American life for nearly three de-
cades, it took a Civil War to produce the country's first cross country route for steam
engines. With the advent
of
the car in the early twentieth century it would take far less
time for the creation
of
the country's first connected continental highway.
Wallis and Williamson investigate and detail the creation
of
the Lincoln High-
way (US Route 30). Named for the country's sixteenth president, the idea for this road-
way
was
conceived in 1912, which was only a decade after factory production cars began
to make their appearance on American roads. This "hard-surfaced and improved high-
way" was born out
of
a system
of
roadways which in most cases was already present but
not yet modernized. Work began in 1913 and eventually the Lincoln Highway ran from
Times Square
in
New York City to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California
a length
of
3,389 miles.
It
passes through thirteen states and for its entire length pieces
of
the American life in the countryside and city dot the landscape.
The book is divided into chapters by state following the highway from east to
west.
It
is
lavishly illustrated with color images
of
stops on the journey from the early
days
to
the present.
Of
course, the roadway in Adams County is today US Route 30 and
passes through the borough
of
Abbotstown to the western end
of
the county near the Mi-
chaux State Forest. Adams County highlights include Hub Cap City in New Oxford and
the famous Round Barn built by Aaron Sheely in 1914. Readers will enjoy the images
and stories
of
the roadway so adeptly woven in the tight narrative by the authors. The
Lincoln Highway they note, until the creation
of
the nation's first limited assess high-
way, the Pennsylvania Turnpike in 1940 was the heart and soul
of
the nation.
In
Adams
County it contributed much to the development
of
Gettysburg as a tourist destination.
Wallis and Williamson make the reader rethink that next trip. Why be
in
a hurry? Stop
and smell the roses. Some
of
the best part
of
American culture
is
still visible
off
the
beaten path. Everyone who reads this work
can't
help but enjoy it.
Wayne
E.
Motts
Executive Director
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Motts: The Lincoln Highway: Coast to Coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate