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Location: Carson City, Nevada, United States

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1. Bowers Mansion loop from Carson & Mills Park Railroad

44.7km

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2. Nevada State Capitol – Nevada State Railroad Museum loop from Indian Hills

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3. Nevada State Capitol loop from Carson & Mills Park Railroad

28.8km

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180m

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August 23, 2023

Today a great transcontinental bike route, the first coast-to-coast highway in the US, once called the Main Street Across America, was conceived on September 10, 1912, when a group of industrialists led by Carl Fisher of Indianapolis Motor Speedway fame, envisioned a continuous improved highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The road would be open to lawful traffic without toll charges and was to be a living memorial to President Abraham Lincoln.

When the route was announced in 1913 it was 3,389 miles long and stitched together existing roadbeds. New sections were built to demonstrate state of the art road construction methods and residents were asked to join the Lincoln Highway Association to show their support for this patriotic and private road building effort.

That highway still exists, and for many it holds an allure in much the same way that it did in its heyday during the 1920s and ’30s. From the beginning the highway was a real tourist destination, and now it’s even more so because people have to make an effort to go that way and fulfill their desires to travel the back roads of America. Not a highway in contemporary terms, the Lincoln Highway today is a system of existing roadways that crosses 13 states and stretches nearly 3,400 miles from Times Square in New York city to Lincoln Park, San Francisco.

But it was soon no longer officially known as "The Lincoln Highway." The US Bureau of Public Roads had eliminated named trails and highways in 1925, so it was US 1, US 30, US 40, US 50 and other, less-romantic, state highway numbers.

One of the last actions of the Lincoln Highway Association before it closed 1927, was to order the casting of 3,000 concrete markers. A rectangular head on top of a hexagonal shaped post, the markers featured the Lincoln Highway logo, a bronze medallion and arrows to indicate the route of the memorial highway. The US Bureau of Public Roads allowed the placement of these markers along the length of the old highway.

The markers were built to last. The posts are reinforced with steel rebar. The colors in the logo are actually separate pieces of cast concrete, with the color added, that were inserted into the final casting. The bronze medallions are anchored into the concrete and cannot be removed without destroying them.

lincolnhighwayassoc.org/news_old/articles/markers

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Location: Carson City, Nevada, United States

Historic Lincoln Highway Marker

1. Bowers Mansion loop from Carson & Mills Park Railroad

2. Nevada State Capitol – Nevada State Railroad Museum loop from Indian Hills

3. Nevada State Capitol loop from Carson & Mills Park Railroad

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