Lincoln Highway Through Truckee - Truckee, CA - E Clampus Vitus Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

"The Lincoln Highway association was incorporated to bring together a transcontinental highway from amongst the various and fragmented paths, trails and city streets across America. Its goal was to create the shortest route between New York and San Francisco for travel in time for the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition. The goal as met with one anomaly; there were two route as designated across the Sierra Nevada:
Johnson's Pass (Echo Summit) and Donner Pass.
From 1913 to 1927 the Lincoln Highway was America's premier cross country route; weathering competition in the west from the later (1921) Victory Highway which also used Donner Pass. Both routes sought preeminence and economic prosperity through their patriotic themes. Both would fade under the numbered federalization of highway after 192r. The adopted Truckee route followed the Dutch Flat and Donner Lake Wagon Road (1864) In 1928, the LHA placed concrete markers across the country, both as a tribute to Abraham Lincoln and to permanently mark the highway's route."

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