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Released for Publication, Sunday, January 2, 1927
Final location of the United States System of Highways consisting of approximately 80,000 miles of the most important roads in the country was made known to-day by...
Frederick W. Cron, an engineer with the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) from 1928 to 1969, was also a highway historian. While working on an article about the numbering of America's main highways, he contacted a former BPR coworker and friend, E. W. James. The following is Mr. James'...
by Richard F. Weingroff
Information Liaison Specialist
Federal Highway Administration
(The following material provided the basis for an article of the same name in AASHTO Quarterly, Spring 1997.)
On Sunday, August 30, 1925, AAA President...
by Richard F. Weingroff
The plan to designate a transcontinental highway to honor the President of the Confederate States of America was conceived in 1913. Today, remnants of that highway periodically generate controversy. The following is presented to...
On August 5, 1939, the Bureau of Public Roads Library logged in a copy of the following chronology of the life of Charles Henry Davis. The following reprint includes the original text. No explanation was provided for the gap from 1914 to 1927.
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Richard F. Weingroff
Alexis de Tocqueville is best known for Democracy in America, which he wrote after spending 10 months of 1831 and 1832 in the United States on a mission from France to study American prisons (then...
by
Richard F. Weingroff
In the 1964 presidential campaign, President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated his Republican rival, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, in a landslide victory. From the perspective of the 21st century,...
By Richard F. Weingroff
When President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 on June 29, he launched construction of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, as it was called. Officials in the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) and...
By Richard F. Weingroff