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- US 50 passes through a total of 12 states; California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland, as well as the District of Columbia. US 50 was created in 1926 as part of the original U.S. Highway system.
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US 50 was created in 1926 as part of the original U.S. Highway system. The original route planned in 1925 ran from Wadsworth, Nevada, east to Annapolis, Maryland, along several auto trails including the Lincoln Highway, Midland Trail, and the National Old Trails Road.
The primitive beginnings of the Highway 50 route through Colorado began in 1821 with Captain William Becknell's Santa Fé Trail. A debt-ridden Kentuckian -- no doubt influenced by stories of Zebulon Pike and a host of courageous mountain men -- Becknell left Missouri in '21 and headed west with a small pack train, and three companions.
Sep 24, 2019 · Advocates sought to create a coast-to-coast “Lincoln Highway.” Out west they selected a course following the Overland Stage and Pony Express route through Utah and Nevada. It was the birth of Route 50, a highway at the heart of the West.
Apr 19, 2014 · The history of US Highway 50 starts almost two hundred years ago. There were no established trails other than pathways left by the Native Americans. Driving along the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas (now called the Bighorn Sheep Canyon) in the early days of US 50. – via highway50.com.
U.S. Route 50 or U.S. Highway 50 (US 50) is a major east–west route of the U.S. Highway system. It goes over 3,000 miles (4,800 km) from Interstate 80 (I-80) in West Sacramento, California , to Maryland Route 528 (MD 528) in Ocean City, Maryland , on the Atlantic Ocean .
Jul 8, 2020 · U.S. Highway 50 was dubbed “the loneliest road in America” by “Life” magazine in July 1986. It is now seen as the backbone of the United States, a true masterpiece of civil engineering, and one of jewels in the crown of the U.S. Highway System connecting the vast nation’s 50 states.
Dedicated in 1913, the Lincoln Highway was the first of these named auto trails to span from coast to coast. Predating the Numbered Highway System by more than a decade, 450 miles of the Lincoln Highway are shared in common with today’s Highway 50, from Ely, Nevada to Sacramento, California.
