Lincoln Highway concrete marker with bronze Pony Express medallion – Antique Print
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Lincoln Highway concrete marker with bronze Pony Express medallion comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Lincoln Highway concrete marker with bronze Pony Express medallion
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A concrete pylon topped with a bronze medallion, this marker pairs two layers of western travel history: the Lincoln Highway, the first road across the country for automobiles, and the Pony Express, the mail relay of 1860 and 1861 that carried letters between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. Parts of the highway followed older overland trails, especially across Nevada and Utah, so later road builders often marked those sections with a tribute to the earlier riders. The Lincoln Highway itself was named for the president, and its markers became a familiar roadside sight in the 1910s and 1920s, when cross-country driving was still a new and sometimes difficult undertaking.
| Original scan | 530 × 800 px |
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| Reference | LincolnHighwayMarkerCarsonCity |
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