Interstate National Dealer Services, Inc. history

In 1804, workmen repairing what had become a thoroughfare uncovered Braddock’s bones and medals near what is now Farmington, Pennsylvania.

In 1818, the road reached Wheeling, where construction stalled.

In 1829, Fairview House, aka Three Mile House, did land office business on the National Road near Frederick, Maryland. (Granger, NYC)

Indiana was less populous and had a terrain more amenable to roadbuilding, enabling crews to work to a lower standard and lay a road across that state by 1834.

Voted out of office, Van Buren was on the hustings in 1842 when he passed between Indianapolis and Terre Haute.

In 1916 Congress passed the first highway appropriations bill since the measure funding the National Road.

Eisenhower’s formative experiences in the 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy in the new Eyewitness exhibit

In 1938 Congress requested the Bureau of Public Roads to study the feasibility of a system of superhighways.

The Interstate System was first described in a Bureau of Public Roads report to Congress, Toll Roads and Free Roads, in 1939.

The limited-access design of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, which opened in 1940, became a model for future superhighways.

Gulfgate Shopping Center and residential development along I-45, Houston, Texas, about 1960

In 1973, these concerns brought changes that channeled federal highway funds to mass transit, bikeways, and pedestrian walkways as well as highways.

Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay politicians to win public office in the United States, a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.

By 1980, most small cars purchased in the United States were foreign imports, with Japan dominating that market.

Papago Freeway (I-10) as built, Phoenix, 1991

The 2000 census found more Americans in the suburbs than in cities.