The Dixie Highway In Illinois

Author : James R. Wright
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439620946
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dixie Highway in Illinois written by James R. Wright and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dixie Highway, once a main thoroughfare from Chicago to Miami, was part of an improved network of roads traversing the landscape of 10 states. A product of the Good Roads Movement of the early 20th century, construction on the highway in Illinois took place from 1916 to 1921. When completed in 1921, the Dixie Highway was the longest continuous paved road in the state. It ran through parts of Cook, Will, Kankakee, Iroquois, and Vermilion Counties, with service stations, roadside diners, and campgrounds sprouting up along the way. With over 200 vintage photographs, The Dixie Highway in Illinois takes readers on a tour from the Art Institute of Chicago, in the heart of the city on Michigan Avenue, to the Illinois state line east of Danville, exploring this historic highway and the communities it passes through.

Author : James R. Wright
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531638825
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dixie Highway in Illinois written by James R. Wright and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dixie Highway, once a main thoroughfare from Chicago to Miami, was part of an improved network of roads traversing the landscape of 10 states. A product of the Good Roads Movement of the early 20th century, construction on the highway in Illinois took place from 1916 to 1921. When completed in 1921, the Dixie Highway was the longest continuous paved road in the state. It ran through parts of Cook, Will, Kankakee, Iroquois, and Vermilion Counties, with service stations, roadside diners, and campgrounds sprouting up along the way. With over 200 vintage photographs, The Dixie Highway in Illinois takes readers on a tour from the Art Institute of Chicago, in the heart of the city on Michigan Avenue, to the Illinois state line east of Danville, exploring this historic highway and the communities it passes through.

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Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dixie Highway written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James R. Wright
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738560021
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dixie Highway in Illinois written by James R. Wright and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dixie Highway, once a main thoroughfare from Chicago to Miami, was part of an improved network of roads traversing the landscape of 10 states. A product of the Good Roads Movement of the early 20th century, construction on the highway in Illinois took place from 1916 to 1921. When completed in 1921, the Dixie Highway was the longest continuous paved road in the state. It ran through parts of Cook, Will, Kankakee, Iroquois, and Vermilion Counties, with service stations, roadside diners, and campgrounds sprouting up along the way. With over 200 vintage photographs, The Dixie Highway in Illinois takes readers on a tour from the Art Institute of Chicago, in the heart of the city on Michigan Avenue, to the Illinois state line east of Danville, exploring this historic highway and the communities it passes through.

Author : Russell S. Rein
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738583679
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dixie Highway in Indiana written by Russell S. Rein and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1914, Carl G. Fisher knew the time was right to promote the second transcontinental auto highway. Following the success of the Lincoln Highway, the Dixie Highway pushed the development of commerce and tourism for the southern states. The Dixie Highway system grew to include routes from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and Chicago to Miami Beach. In Indiana, the Dixie Highway became parts of Indiana 933, US 31, Indiana 25, Indiana 29, US 421, Indiana 37, and US 150. The dogleg from Chicago to Indiana became part of US 136.

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Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dixie Highway written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tammy Ingram
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469612984
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dixie Highway written by Tammy Ingram and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dixie Highway: Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930

Author : Cynthia L. Ogorek
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738551975
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lincoln Highway Around Chicago written by Cynthia L. Ogorek and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once known as the "Main Street of America," The Lincoln Highway through western Indiana and eastern Illinois became the first urban bypass on the first hard-surfaced transcontinental highway in the nation. Some 200 vintage photographs visit sites that early-day tourists saw, and documents the people who made the highway what is was.

Author : Tammy Ingram
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469612992
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dixie Highway written by Tammy Ingram and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners. In their place, a jumble of dirt roads covered the region like a bed of briars. Introduced in 1915, the Dixie Highway changed all that by merging hundreds of short roads into dual interstate routes that looped from Michigan to Miami and back. In connecting the North and the South, the Dixie Highway helped end regional isolation and served as a model for future interstates. In this book, Tammy Ingram offers the first comprehensive study of the nation's earliest attempt to build a highway network, revealing how the modern U.S. transportation system evolved out of the hard-fought political, economic, and cultural contests that surrounded the Dixie's creation. The most visible success of the Progressive Era Good Roads Movement, the Dixie Highway also became its biggest casualty. It sparked a national dialogue about the power of federal and state agencies, the role of local government, and the influence of ordinary citizens. In the South, it caused a backlash against highway bureaucracy that stymied road building for decades. Yet Ingram shows that after the Dixie Highway, the region was never the same.

Author : Tim Hollis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617033742
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dixie before Disney written by Tim Hollis and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: