U.S. 40 Cross Section of the United States of America (Chapter 32: Benjamin Harrison Era)

 

That was then (1953).  

From chapter 32:

The town of Marshall, Illinois,has less than three thousand people, but the main businss-district is in its way an artchivbectural gem.  Individually the buildings are about as ugly as can well be imagined, but they were all constructed at the same tim and in the same style, and taken as a whole block they gain histsorical significance and even dignity

Just like those constructed during the same era on Liberty Street in Warren, Pennsylvania.

 

Photo by Retiring Guy (7/5/2023)

This is now.  Still looking historically significant and dignified.

Google Maps

Marshall, Illinois, is located 16 miles west/southwest of Terre Haute, Indiana, and 155 miles east-northeast of St. Louis, Missouri.   With a current population of 3,947, Marshall has a thousand more residents than when George R. Stewart drove through the town in the early 1950s.

 

Photo by Retiring Guy: 1952 Rand McNally Road Atlas (arrow added)

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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)

Chapter 8:  Ellicott City.  (8/7/2024)

Chapter 9.  Frederick.  (8/8/2024)

Chapter 11.  Horrible example.  (8/16/2024)

Chapter 12.  Mount Prospect.  (8/17/2024)

Chapter 13:  Ridge and Valley.  (8/18/2024)

Chapter 14:  The Narrows.  (8/19/2024)

Chapter 15:  From Little Savage Mountain.  (8/27/2024)

Chapter 16:  Mason-Dixon Line.  (8/28/2024)

Chapter 17:  Fort Necessity (8/29/2024)

Chapter 18:  Braddock's Grave, (8/30/2024)

Chapter 19:  Toll House.  (9/2/2024)

Chapter 20.  Coal Mine.  (9/5/2024)

Chapter 21:  Wheeling.  (9/6/2024)

Chapter 22:  Cambridge, Ohio.  (9/9/2024)

Chapter 23:  S-bridge.  (9/10/2024)

Chapter 24:  Highway and tree.  (9/11/2024)

Chapter 25:  Mileposts.  (9/12/2024)

Chapter 26.  Tavern.  (9/13/2024)

Chapter 27:  Taylorsville Dam.  (9/14/2024)

Chapter 28:  In full glory.  (9/16/2024)

Chapter 29.  Farm on the National Road (9/17/2024)

Chapter 30:  Victorian Elegance.  (9/18/2024)

Chapter 31:  Roadside V endor (9/19/2024)