Book

Who Came Down That Road? Book Summary

Video Introduction to the book

Author

George Ella Lyon Author Website

• George Ella Lyon is a former 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

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

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