What is now I-80, and was once US 30, is called the Lincoln Highway. The statue is located at the rest stop between Laramie and Cheyenne, and is the highest point on the 3,500 mile road extending from New York to San Francisco. The highway was built in large by Henry Bourne Joy, first president of the Lincoln Highway Association and president of Packard Motor Co. In 1913 it was considered the first transcontinental automobile road. It existed as a private enterprise, managed by the Lincoln Highway Association. In 1916, the association lobbied state and federal governments for funds to improve the dirt road which made up the Lincoln Highway. Henry Bourne Joy is known by many as the father of the nation's modern highway system. |
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