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National Park Service Report
Even with the re-routings and the
new federal highway numbers, the identity of the Lincoln Highway did not die
with the Lincoln Highway Association. The image made for the highway was by then
too deeply seated. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, many piecemeal road
relocations were considered as improvements to the Lincoln Highway, not as
bypasses of the Lincoln Highway. This was the case with the 1931 opening of the
magnificent George Westinghouse Bridge east of Pittsburgh, and the 1930
Blair Bridge across the Missouri River, which caused Omaha, Nebraska, to be
dropped from the Lincoln Highway. [Source]
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