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Hobart Gazette, Nov. 16, 1923.
… but I'm interested in that bit about the Liberty Highway, as I'm now clearer about some of the roads involved. The first time I encountered the Liberty Highway — in 1921 — its route was being moved from "the North Hobart-Wheeler road [W 700 N] and Cleveland avenue" to "the south Hobart-Wheeler road." I didn't know what the latter was.
But here we are in 1923 and the Liberty Highway route has been moved back to Cleveland Ave./W 700 N "to eliminate the bad crossing of the Pennsy and Nickel Plate railroads" — now, what could that be but that awful Traeger crossing? So the south Hobart-Wheeler road was Tenth Street/W 600 N.
I still don't know where the Liberty Highway started or where it stopped.
Later in the month, when Alwin Wild is trying to sell property from someone's estate, he thinks it helpful to mention that the property is on the Yellowstone Trail … not a word about the Liberty Highway.
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Hobart Gazette, Nov. 30, 1923.
Also, a child born to Walter and Hazel (née Thompson) Veal … and a dance at Deepriver Hall, which I believe is the former schoolhouse.
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Apparently the Liberty Highway was intended to go from Atlantic City, N.J., to Pasadena, Calif. I don't know if it was ever completed. There was another highway with the same name from Cleveland to New York City. In the early days of automobile travel, associations were formed to sponsor various routes (https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/numbers.cfm). Eventually, the state and federal governments took over responsibility and developed the numbered highway system. I haven't found any detailed descriptions of the Lincoln Highway other than the fact that an association was formed in 1918 or 1919 and the proposed start and end points.
There's a Lincolnway East and West that goes through South Bend, IN. Made me curious if it was the same Lincoln Highway (turns out it is). This site has a map and some brief history:
http://www2.sjcpl.org/db/historydb/recorddetail/rec/550
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