Book

Who Came Down That Road? Book Summary

Video Introduction to the book

Author

George Ella Lyon Author Website

• George Ella Lyon was Kentucky poet laureate in 2015 and 2016
  

I Am From Project

Teaching and Learning Resources

1000 Events That Changed the World from HistoryStack

National Road Monument, Indiana State Capitol, Indianapolis

Links to pages dealing with roads, rivers and railroads

The Erie Canal and the Early 19th Century Transportation Revolution

 The Transcontinental Railroad

Zhang Qian and the Beginnings of the Silk Road

The National Road, America's First Major Highway- linking Maryland & Ohio

• Also known as the Cumberland Road or the Main Street of America
• Authorized in 1806; begin in 1813, reached Illinois in 1839
• Workers crushed and hauled stone by hand

History of Route 66

• 2448 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles
• John Steinbeck in the Grapes of Wrath called it the "mother road"
• Part of it follows The Trail of Tears

 Listen to and view Nat King Cole perform the song Route 66

I-90, St. Charles, Minnesota 

The Interstate Highway System

• Begun in the 1950s under President Dwight Eisenhower.  Go here for primary sources about the highway system from the Eisenhower Presidential Library
• Federal-Aid Highway Act led to the building of 47,800 miles of highways
• Highway A1 is in Alaska

The Mahican-Mohawk Trail

• East to West Native American pathway in western Massachusetts/sections also follow Route 2, the Mohawk Trail
• From the Connecticut River to the Hudson River along the Deerfield River, over the Hoosac Mountains and along the Hoosac River.

• Dramatic Event page on The Peskeompskut Massacre or the Battle of Great Falls

More Roads to Investigate

Appian Way

Old North Trail

Persian Royal Road

Gold Rush Highway 49

Trans-Saharan Trade Route

The Spice Routes

The Tea Horse Road