Lincoln Highway
Lincoln Highway is a historic road in USA.
- Type: Historic
- Country: USA
- Length: 5,400 km
- Opened: 1913
Overview
The first transcontinental highway for automobiles, promoted by Carl Fisher in 1913 from Times Square to Lincoln Park, San Francisco. Concrete seedling miles showed counties how to build good roads. Much of it became US 30 and later I 80.
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