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Still Getting Our Kicks
Souvenir shop owner and former barber Angel Delgadillo felt as though his town was forgotten overnight. In 1978, Interstate 40, part of the new Interstate Highway System, offered a high-speed route to the West Coast—one that avoided small towns. Seli
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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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Getting Started
Construction of Liberty Enlightening the World began in 1876. The completed statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886. But its creator, Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, spent nearly two decades thinking about, designing, organizing, and building this magni

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