The Hopley Monument in Bucyrus, Ohio

The Hopley Monument in Bucyrus, a small city in central Ohio that lies along the historic, originally two-lane, highway that was the first U.S. roadway -- numbered U.S. 30 in much of its route -- to cross the entire United States in the 1930s. The monument, erected in 1929, honors John Edward Hopley, a Bucyrus newspaper editor who fiercely championed the idea of a coast-to-coast highway. Much of the road, named for U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, is now four-lane, and parts have been subsumed into stretches of limited-access freeways.

Date

2016

Collection

Carol M. Highsmith Archive

Archive

Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)

Type

photograph

Original size

5,472 × 3,648 pixels

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