In Grand Island Nebraska yesterday, we happened upon this wonderful piece of history. The only remaining original section of a concrete "seedling mile" that has not been widened or paved over. It was one of the original "seeds" of the Lincoln Highway (now route 30), the first paved transcontinental highway from New York to San Francisco.
After spending a few minutes exploring this old concrete roadway on foot, we spent the next hour or so driving on historic Route 30 in rural Nebraska. The original Lincoln Highway was later replaced by Route 80 as the preferred main route across Nebraska, but it is still a maintained and used roadway today and a prettier way to see the farmland and small towns of Nebraska. Read on below and enjoy the photos.
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| The actual remaining road surface. Not bad for something laid in 1915! |
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To the left of the roadway, there were these entertaining signs
erected by the Burma Shave Company (The billboards of yesterday) |
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| These marked telephone poles line the historic Lincoln Highway today |
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