The Beginning of the Lincoln Highway

The Beginning of the Lincoln Highway (HM13EE)

Location: Irwin, PA 15642 Westmoreland County
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Country: United States of America
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N 40° 19.704', W 79° 42.606'

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The Lincoln Highway was the first coast-to-coast highway built in 1913. A group of visionary businessmen from the automotive industry, led by Henry B. Joy and Carl Fisher, formed the Lincoln Highway Association.
The Association successfully spearheaded the creation of the publicly funded road that stretched from New York City, New York to San Francisco, California The road would be the first transcontinental highway. The Association engaged in very little actual road building, but it did fire the public's imagination and soon their project was under way. When it was completed it stretched 3,389 miles.
In Pennsylvania, much of the Lincoln Highway was constructed by improving and linking pre-existing roads, including the turnpikes and Forbes Road. It was a focal point of the Good Roads Movement, which would untimately lead to the development of highways all over the nation.
The Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor, is a non-profit heritage region that follows the Lincoln Highway through six Pennsylvania counties: Westmoreland, Somerset, Bedford, Fulton, Franklin, and Adams.
The first segments of the Lincoln Highway measured ten feet wide. Later, a wider width was recommended so two automobiles could drive on the road at the same time. Then, an 18-foot minimum in 1918 was established, and it still was not wide enough as seen in the photograph above. Today, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation specifications call for a 24' width for two-lane, local access roads.
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HM NumberHM13EE
Series This marker is part of the Lincoln Highway series
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Placed ByLincoln Highway Heritage Corridor
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Date Added Friday, October 17th, 2014 at 6:53am PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)17T E 609577 N 4465005
Decimal Degrees40.32840000, -79.71010000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 40° 19.704', W 79° 42.606'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds40° 19' 42.24" N, 79° 42' 36.36" W
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Area Code(s)724, 412
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 1864 Old Rte 30, Irwin PA 15642, US
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