2025 U.S. Van Trip - Travelling the Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania
Background The Lincoln Highway holds a fascination for many people. This is easy to understand as it was the first transcontinental automobile highway in the United States. It connected New York to San Francisco. A fellow named Carl Fisher provided the leadership which organized automobile enthusiasts and industry supporters to form the Lincoln Highway Association (LHA). This group selected the route for the highway and worked with local resources to create an improved coast to coast highway. Route selection was completed in 1913 and the goal was to complete a rock covered highway in time for the 1915 Pan-American Exposition in San Francisco. It was estimated that a hardy and self reliant traveler could make the automobile trip from New York to San Francisco in about 30 days. The East Coast had a head start as wagon roads had been laid out and improved over time. In Pennsylvania the Lancaster to Philadelphia Turnpike, the Conestoga Trail a...