Astride the Road from Nowhere

"Our tents were pitched on a rocky point with a fine forest on every side and a magnificent view of the Alleghenies on front of us, a beautiful romantic, though desolate spot." - William Houghton, 14th Indiana Infantry, July 16, ...

The Road to Omaha

Presented by

College World Series of Omaha, Inc.

to the City of Omaha

June 7, 1999

In Celebration of 50 Years of NCAA

Division I Baseball Championship Games

in Omaha

John Lajba, Sculptor

Moved from its Original Location

At Omaha’s Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium

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Rededicated at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha

To Continue ...

Risk of the Road

Bloody 66 and Insurance

Illinois Route 66 was dangerous.

Curves, crossroads, and bridge abutments doomed many speeding motorists, giving rise to the nickname, "Bloody 66." After World War II, curves were straightened, towns bypassed, and four lanes built to improve safety. New ...

The Old Portage Road

Built by Celoron in 1749 when

he explored and claimed this

region for France. Followed an

Indian Trail and crossed the

highway at this point in 1753.

Marker is at the intersection of South Portage Road (New York Route 394) ...

The Old Bay Road

An ancient Indian trail. The Post Road between Massachusetts Bay and Narragansett Bay.

The first highway in Easton.

The Old Bay Road Historical District

Recorded in the National Register of Historic Places

U.S. Department of Interior

National Park Service

May 22nd 1972

Marker is on ...

Terminus of the Santa Fe Railroad

Panhandle, Texas

Originally “Carson City”, town name was changed 1887 when this site appeared to be the future metropolis of the Panhandle: it was to be at the junction of Santa Fe (under name “Southern Kansas”) and Fort Worth & Denver ...

A Stone Arch Bridge on the Galena Road

The Stone Arch Bridge that stands to the east of the present highway was on the Galena Road, once the most important trail in northern Illinois. Along this route innumerable people streamed northward to the lead mines near Galena every ...

The Galena Road

In the early 1830’s pioneer traffic moving north from Peoria crowded primitive trails and forced a direct route to Galena. In 1833, Levi Warner’s state survey marked the Galena Road. It cut through this schoolyard. Private Abraham Lincoln passed this ...

The Road to Fort Duquesne

This memorial was erected in 1907

by the Society of Colonial Wars

in the District of Columbia

to mark the road over which

on April 14, 1755

a division of the British Army

under General Braddock

marched on its ...

The Road to Santa Fe

The Santa Fe trail, extending 750 miles from the Kansas City area to the old Spanish settlement of Santa Fe, was the great overland trade route of the 1820's to 1870s. Its commercial use began in 1821, when William Becknell ...