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Old Lincoln Highway at Elkhorn

Omaha, NE

A surviving section and marker recall the Lincoln Highway, one of the first transcontinental automobile routes in the United States. The stop connects modern Omaha traffic with the era when cross-country driving depended on named roads, local markers and frequently primitive conditions.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: history.nebraska.gov/nebraska-historical-marker-photo-submission/

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