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Freeze Frame
The nation’s first road was built between 1811 and 1839. Its length was 620 miles, from the Potomac River in Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois. At that time, people traveled by horse- or oxen-drawn stagecoaches, carriages, and wagons. To help guide thos
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Broad Ribbons of New Roads
When Dwight D. Eisenhower was a young lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army in 1919, he drove with a military convoy across the country. He saw firsthand how bad the nation’s roads were. Most were made of unpaved dirt. Old wooden bridges broke under th
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Getting Started
I remember the first summer road trip Colonel Crow and I took with the squirrels. We loaded the car with a tent and a camping stove. We brought a blank journal and a cooler to keep food cold. We had a general plan but nothing set in stone. We camped

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