This map was apparently part of a major lobbying effort to secure funding from the Congress to complete the Interstate Highway System. Show more The highway system, adopted by Congress in 1956, was a ...

The story of America’s interstates is usually told as a straightforward tale of postwar progress, but the real origins are stranger and more contested than the green signs suggest. The Dwight D.

Beyond the questionable accuracy of even modern maps, none are thought to include all the shaft openings, test pits, entrances and even entire mines that were constructed in New Jersey. Interstate 80 ...