Interstate Bridge Looking from Menominee, Mich. Towards Marinette, Wis. (Postcard Series)

The bridge opened to traffic in 1929, replacing a series of bridges constructed at this point since 1865.   The bridge pictured in this postcard was replaced in 2004-05.

Michigan Department of Transportation.  US-41 / Menominee River.  The 1929 bridge.

Michigan Department of Transportation. Replacement of interstate bridge between Menominee, Mich., and Marinette, Wis., to begin.

Interstate bridge project (U.S. 41).  Nov. 2004 to Dec. 2005.

Up the Winding Way on National Highway Between St. Clairsville, Ohio and Wheeling, W. Va. (Postcard Series)

U.S. Highway 40: The National Road

Explore U.S. 40

The New Super Highway near Paxtonia between Harrisburg and Indiantown Gap, Harrisburg, Pa. (Postcard Series)

Harrisburg is the county seat of Dauphin County. 

Harrisburg demographics 2010

Aerial View of New Stanton Viaduct and Interchanges, Pennsylvania Turnpike (Postcard Series)

Entrance to Allegheny Mountain Tunnel on the Pennsylvania Turnpike

Twin tunnels now.


Turnpike studies future of Allegheny tunnels.

Portal and Tunnel on Pennsylvania Turnpike (Postcard Series)

Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike

The Birches and New Highway, East Shore of Schroon Lake, Adirondack Hts., N.Y. (Postcard Series)

Schroon Lake, New York

Standing Stone Narrows on Roosevelt Highway and Sullivan Trail (Postcard Series)

Bradford County, Pennsylvania

French Azilum Lookout and Marie Antoinette on Sullivan Trail, Route 6 (Postcard Series)

Azilum: French Asylum on the Susquehanna

French Azilum Overlook

• Natural hazards
• Weather
• Time
• Nature

Hairpin Turn, Mohawk Trail, Massachusetts (Postcard Series)

The Mohawk Trail through the Berkshire Hills

But not the hairpin turn, unfortunately.

Here we go.   But filmed while parked.

U.S. Highway 5 Along the Connecticut River North of Springfield, Massachusetts

U.S. 5:  A Highway to History.  (The banner of this website appears to use a weirdly stretched version of the above postcard.)

U.S. 5 traffic conditions in Massachusetts

Mount Tom State Reservation.

The Newburyport Turnpike, Newburyport, Massachusetts

The Newburyport Turnpike:  A historic road.  (Wicked Local Saugus, 9/14/2007)

Excerpt: The saga continues with the advent of automobiles in the early 1900’s and the rebirth of the turnpike. The road was widened and paved in 1922 and grass plots were used to separate the lanes of traffic on either side. The Newburyport Turnpike was designated as Route 1 in 1925. In the 1930’s construction began to replace the level road crossings with overpasses at Essex, Main, and Walnut Street. The M.D.C. extended its parkway program into Saugus with the creation of the Lynn Fells Parkway which connected the Turnpike with Melrose. The Frank Bennett Highway, or Route C-1, was built from Saugus to East Boston and dedicated in 1937. A rotary had to be constructed to accommodate the new roadway.

Milestone Memorials Along Newburyport Turnpike

View from Grand View Point on U.S. 30 (Postcard Series)

Pennsylvania Turnpike through the Aliquippa Gap (Postcard Series)

Stories from PA History:  Crossing the Alleghenies

Pennsylvania Turnpike: America's Dream Highway Entrance (Postcard Series)

Study: PA Turnpike Has Longest Stretch Of Highway Without An Exit. (CBS Philly, 8/26/2011)

Excerpt: The navigation aid company TomTom used its database to measure distances between exits on the nation’s highways and two of the longest stretches are in Western Pennsylvania — 35 miles between Somerset and Bedford and 25 miles between Plainfield and Blue Mountain.

Moyer Brothers

Pennsylvania Turnpike Interchange (Postcard Series)

Highway to Key West (Postcard Series)

History of Lower Matacumbe Key.