Map of the Lone Star Route.
Lone Star Route Association Contributor.
Mulford, John C. Cartographer.
National Highways Association Creator.
cartographic
Washington, D.C. : National Highways Association,
1922-08.
eng
The National Highways Association (NHA) was established in 1911 to promote the development of an improved national road network in the United States. Under the slogan "Good roads for everyone!" the NHA advocated the building and permanent maintenance by the federal government of a system of 50,000 miles (some 80,500 kilometers) of highways. This map, issued by the NHA in 1922, shows the proposed Lone Star Route from Chicago, Illinois, to Brownsville, Texas, through the states of Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. To increase the commercial and political appeal of the highway, the map purportedly shows "every city, town, village and hamlet throughout its entire length." Besides issuing brochures and circulars aimed at convincing citizens of the need for a national road system, the NHA was a prolific producer of maps. Cartographic work was done at an office in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, where approximately 40 people were employed on the property of Charles Henry Davis (1865--1951), president and cofounder of the NHA. Davis believed that these maps would be helpful to a national highways commission that he hoped would be established and that they would assist the states in integrating their roads into a national system. Congress never embraced the plan put forward by the NHA, but the organization and its maps helped to promote the cause of a national road network.
Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
"Scale 1:3,400,000"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
Original resource extent: 1 map : color ; 67 x 17 centimeters.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.
Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
1922
Highway planning Roads
United States of America
United States of America
United States of America
United States of America
United States of America
American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.11536