Two Goals
of the Lincoln Highway Association
 One
goal was to build a "Coast-to-Coast Rock Highway" from Times
Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco. The
second goal was to make the Lincoln Highway an object lesson that
would, in the words of its creator, Carl G. Fisher, "stimulate as
nothing else could the building of enduring highways everywhere
that will not only be a credit to the American people but that
will also mean much to American agriculture and American
commerce."
In 1939, Fisher
died. He had lost most of his fortune, a victim of the collapse of the
Florida real estate boom in 1926, a disastrous hurricane that devastated
Miami Beach in September of that same year, and the Wall Street Crash in
1929. The Crash forced him to abandon his last big project, a resort
hotel in Montauk, New York. |
