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From: James Gordon< >
Subject: Re: Braddock's Road
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 23:37:34 -0700


MRS JEANNE GEER wrote:
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> -- [ From: Jeanne Geer * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] --
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> -------- REPLY, Original message follows --------
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> Date: Thursday, 17-Jul-97 06:39 PM
>
> From: James Gordon \ Internet: ()
> To: Anelle Kloski \ Internet: ()
> cc: (Unlisted Name) \ Internet:
> ()
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> Subject: Re: Braddock's Road
>
> Anelle Kloski wrote:
> >
> > >From THE GENESIS OF WESTERN CULTURE by Miller: "The routes by which
> the
> > pioneer settlers sought the West were four in number...(two of these
> > four were) the most direct lines of communication between the
> important
> > eastern ports of entry and the head of navigation on the Ohio at
> > Pittsburgh...the more northerly of the two was called the Raystown
> Path,
> > then Forbes' Road, the Pennsylvania Road, and finally, in modern days,
> > the Lincoln Highway. The more southerly route became famous as
> > Braddock's Road, then as the Cumberland Pike, and later as the
> National
> > Pike." He says the other two of the four were tracks which became the
> > Genesee Road and the Wilderness Road.
> >
> > Anelle McCarty Kloski
>
> The Lincoln Highway became part of United States Highway #40 (aka US40)
> and The National Road became US50 when the United States Highway System
> was instituted after the "horseless carriage" became extensive. The
> Lincoln Highway was the first transcontinental highway. There is a
> marker in San Francisco, CA which commemorates the completion of the
> Lincoln Highway.
> --
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jim Gordon, Laurel, MD USA
>
> -------- REPLY, End of original message --------
> I beg to differ with you when you say the Lincoln Highway became US 40
> it didn't Lincoln Highway is and always was US 30. It starts NJ, PA< OH,
> IL, IA, NE, WY, UT, NV, CA. When I was a trucker I followed the Lincoln
> Hwy from coast, Parts of it today follows I 80
>
> >From the Husband of Jeanne Geer

True, US30 follows the route you described into UT, from there it goes
into ID and ends in OR. I80 does overlay it in a great many places. In
WY, it sombines with I84 and goes NW into ID and OR. BTW, ther is a
marker in SF there is a marker at Park Presidio Blvd and (I believe)
Geary Blvd which commemorates the termination of the Lincoln Hwy.
--

Cheers,

Jim Gordon, Laurel, MD USA

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