Most of us don’t give a second thought to the roads we travel on. But in the first part of the last century, there were few paved roads, and certainly none of the interstate highways we enjoy these days. Traveling across the United States by car was next to impossible.
In 1912, Carl Fisher, founder of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, came up with the idea for a ‘Coast-to-Coast Rock Highway.’ Fisher’s plan called for a completely graveled continuous highway running from New York City to San Francisco.
