Map of the Great Plains Road : showing every city, town, village and hamlet throughout its entire length / issued under joint auspicies of the National Highways Association, Great Plains Road Association ; John C. Mulford, Chief cartographer, E.E. Jenkins, cartographer
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- Created Date
- 1915
- Description
Shows tentative locations for part of a system of 100,000 miles of national highways. "Proposed by the Great Plains Road Association and also advocated by the National Highway Association." "November 1915."
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 1915, shows the Great Plains Road, proposed by the Great Plains Road Association and endorsed by the NHA. The projected route runs from the U.S.–Canada border in Portal, North Dakota, to Brownsville, Texas, on the U.S.–Mexico border, a distance of 2,350 miles (3,782 kilometers). The notes and table at the bottom indicate the numbers of states, counties, and cities of different sizes traversed by the route and the population expected to be served. 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 don
Color
1:5,000,000
- Creator
Mulford, John C
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- American Geographical Society Library - Maps
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection - Publisher
- National Highways Association
- Type
- image
- Language
- English
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Mulford, John C. Map of the Great Plains Road : showing every city, town, village and hamlet throughout its entire length / issued under joint auspicies of the National Highways Association, Great Plains Road Association ; John C. Mulford, Chief cartographer, E.E. Jenkins, cartographer. 1915. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/1470. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Mulford, John C, (1915) Map of the Great Plains Road : showing every city, town, village and hamlet throughout its entire length / issued under joint auspicies of the National Highways Association, Great Plains Road Association ; John C. Mulford, Chief cartographer, E.E. Jenkins, cartographer. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/1470
- MLA citation style
- Mulford, John C. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/1470>.