Decades before Google Street View, state government vans were photographing each mile of roadway, capturing a rich visual history of America’s roads and highways. On May 10, 1985, a tricked-out van ...

BUILDING ROADS ON the Olympic Peninsula has always been a challenge. In the days before roads, people traveled along beaches at low tide when the surf was low enough to not pound you into the ...

At their most basic level, names are nothing but labels that human beings assign to objects and abstractions. Were that all, the current proposal to relabel Jefferson Highway as Jefferson Boulevard ...

COLO, Iowa — The town of Colo, Iowa, has been referred to as the “Crossroads of the Nation,” the place where the Jefferson and Lincoln highways meet. One spot on the north side of town serves as a ...

Long before the interstates, Highway 80 brought travelers into California through San Diego’s El Cajon Blvd. In this drive, we follow the historic 1926–1953 route and uncover the forgotten charm, ...

Historian Keith Petersen has spent three and a half years of his “retirement” writing Idaho history, 100 words at a time.

Pomerado Road was once a vital part of Highway 395 through San Diego, but in 1980, a section just south of Poway was left behind during a realignment. Over 40 years later, the road is still shockingly ...