U.S. 40 Cross Section of the United States of America (Chapter 8: Ellicott City)

 

That was then (1953)

Intro to chapter 8:

The narrow, winding, heavy-graded main street of an eighteenth-century Maryland town, along which U.S. still passes [not anymore], shows why the life of a highway commissioner in these United States is seldom an easy one.

 

This is now.  

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Related post:

Chapter 1:  Beginnings.  (7/19/2024)

Chapter 2:  Coastal Plain.  (7/20/2024)

Chapter 5.  Six-Lane Highway.  (8/4/2024)

Chapter 6.  Bush River.  (8/5/2024)

Chapter 7:  Baltimore rows.  (8/6/2024)