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The Pikes Peak Ocean To Ocean Highway

Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway

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...

Chronology of the Life of Charles Henry Davis

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.

Charles (Henry) Davis

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Alexis de Tocqueville on Transportation in America

by
Richard F. Weingroff

Introduction

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...

Lady Bird Johnson's I-95 Landscape-Landmark Tour - Highway History - FHWA

by
Richard F. Weingroff

If It's Beautifying They Want

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 21^st century,...

A Moment in Time: Project Chicago

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...