Decades before Google Street View, state government vans were photographing each mile of roadway, capturing a rich visual history of America’s roads and highways. On May 10, 1985, a tricked-out van ...

At their most basic level, names are nothing but labels that human beings assign to objects and abstractions. Were that all, the current proposal to relabel Jefferson Highway as Jefferson Boulevard ...

BUILDING ROADS ON the Olympic Peninsula has always been a challenge. In the days before roads, people traveled along beaches at low tide when the surf was low enough to not pound you into the ...

COLO, Iowa — The town of Colo, Iowa, has been referred to as the “Crossroads of the Nation,” the place where the Jefferson and Lincoln highways meet. One spot on the north side of town serves as a ...

In 1940, drivers lined up for hours to be the first to drive on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, which opened at midnight on Oct. 1, 1940. Journalists at the time called the Turnpike a “dream highway” and ...

A Halloween party and fall festival in Churubusco on Oct. 31, 1923, celebrated the completion of the paving of Lincoln Highway from Fort Wayne to that city. Welcome arches were erected at each end of ...