{"id":13159,"date":"2018-05-31T08:30:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T15:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=13159"},"modified":"2023-10-18T19:59:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T02:59:29","slug":"coast-to-coast-transportation-history-timeline-from-how-indianapolis-built-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2018\/05\/31\/coast-to-coast-transportation-history-timeline-from-how-indianapolis-built-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast-to-Coast Transportation History Timeline from How Indianapolis Built America"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1795<\/b> First ferry, a pirogue, crosses Mississippi River into what is now St. Louis
\n<\/span>1803-1806<\/b> Lewis & Clark (33). Began from William Clark\u2019s Clarsksville, IN on Ohio River 100 miles south of Indianapolis
\n<\/b><\/span>1804<\/b> First full-scale working railway steam locomotive by Richard Trevithic, UK
\n<\/span>1806<\/b> National Rd. Commissioned by Thomas Jefferson. DC, through Indianapolis<\/b>, to Mississippi River
\n<\/span>1811<\/b> First steamboat trip from Pittsburgh, PA on Ohio River to the Mississippi River
\n<\/span>1811-1869<\/b> Oregon Trail. (Wagon trains 1836) Mississippi River to Oregon Coast (350k)
\n<\/span>1827<\/b> Baltimore & Ohio Railroad first U.S. railway
\n<\/span>1837<\/b> Horse powered ferry service across Mississippi begins in Dubuque Iowa
\n<\/span>1839<\/b> Charles Goodyear vulcanizes rubber making rubber useful in any kind of weather
\n<\/span>1846-1869<\/b> Mormon Trail (70k Mormons) Illinois to Salt Lake City
\n<\/span>1846-47<\/b> Donner Party tries to go over Sierras (83 start, 45 survived)
\n<\/span>1848<\/b> Discovery of gold in CA
\n<\/span>1848<\/b> Mormon Emigrant Pass over Sierras forged. (30K) first east-west road for wagons over Sierras into N California
\n<\/span>1850<\/b> Donation Land Claim Act encourages settlement of Oregon with free land
\n<\/span>1850<\/b> Lone Tree Ferry begins crossing Missouri River – Council Bluffs, IA to Omaha, NE
\n<\/span>1852<\/b> Present day US 50 (Lincoln Hwy) over Sierra\u2019s replaces Mormon Emigrant Pass with lower shorter route (200K)
\n<\/span>1852-1918 <\/b>Stage coaches SF to St Louis also carry mail, news & gold
\n<\/span>1853<\/b> Indianapolis<\/b> builds first \u2018Union\u2019 RR station in world, a hub that all 8 local train lines would use
\n<\/span>1854<\/b> First rail crossing of Mississippi River – Rock Isl, IL to Davenport, IA
\n<\/span>1856<\/b> Henry Bessemer turns iron into steel.
\n<\/span>1858<\/b> Gold Discovered in Colorado causing routes to branch off Oregon Trail
\n<\/span>1859<\/b> Discovery of Oil near Pittsburgh
\n<\/span>1860<\/b> Pony Express. (18 mos) SF to St Louis
\n<\/span>1861<\/b> TransCon telegraph completed
\n<\/span>1862<\/b> Pres. Lincoln signs Homestead act which begins closing off the frontier with private property
\n<\/span>1869<\/b> Hiwheel Bicycle, pre-roller chain bike, invented, France
\n<\/span>1869<\/b> TransCon rail completed (reaches CA thru Sierras and not OR)
\n<\/span>1870<\/b> First paved road in USA, Newark, NJ
\n<\/span>1873<\/b> First rail bridge cross Missouri River – Council Bluffs Iowa to Omaha Nebraska
\n<\/span>1873<\/b> Barbed wire invented begins end of cattle drives & turns frontier into a network of privately owned parcels
\n<\/span>1876<\/b> Transcontinental rail line rerouted in CA from Altamont Pass c\/o Solano Train Ferry (worlds largest. carried entire train) over SF Bay\u00a0via Benecia-Martinez
\n<\/span>1876<\/b> Telephone invented
\n<\/span>1880<\/b> Good Roads Movement by LAW in East
\n<\/span>1880<\/b> Roller chain invented by Hans Renold
\n<\/span>1884<\/b> Thomas Stevens bikes across USA on Hiwheel
\n<\/span>1885<\/b> Hans Renold openly gives roller chain patent to bike industry
\n<\/span>1885<\/b> Safety Bicycle invented with two equal sized wheels
\n<\/span>1885<\/b> First has powered automobile Karl Benz, Germany
\n<\/span>1888<\/b> Pneumatic tire invented in Ireland. Makes smaller wheeled safety bicycles comfortable to ride
\n<\/span>1890<\/b> Diamond Chain (was Indpls Chain & Stamping) opens in Indianapolis<\/b>. Powers avalanche of Gay 90\u2019s safety bicycles, first airplane, Henry Ford\u2019s autos
\n<\/span>1891<\/b> Lyons Fulton Bridge built. Dedicated car bridge over Mississippi. Ultimately used by Lincoln Highway. Fulton, IL to Clinton, IA
\n<\/span>1903<\/b> First car trip across America. Bike racer driving w\/retired doctor in shotgun, 63 days
\n<\/span>1908<\/b> Henry Ford\u2019s first mass produced auto
\n<\/span>1912<\/b> Lincoln Highway conceived by Carl Fisher at German Haus, Indianapolis
\n<\/b><\/span>1913<\/b> Lincoln Hoosier Tour Indianapolis<\/b> – SF to survey Lincoln Hwy route
\n<\/span>1914<\/b> Lincoln NYC to SF route opens
\n<\/span>1916<\/b> Federal aid Road act by Woodrow Wilson establishes funding for highways by federal govt.
\n<\/span>1917<\/b> First 3 miles of National Rd. get paved in Indianapolis<\/b>
\n<\/span>1918<\/b> Bureau of Public Roads (renamed Public Roads Administration, 1939) begins as part of New Deal
\n<\/span>1919<\/b> TransCon convoy (w\/Eisenhower) celebrates end WWI in Indianapolis<\/b> on way from Gettysburg, PA\u00a0 <\/span>to San Francisco on Lincoln Hwy
\n<\/span>1926<\/b> Road over Sierra\u2019s paved commemorated by Reno Arch
\n<\/span>1926<\/b> Bureau of Public Roads changes named roads to numbered roads. Lincoln becomes US 30, 40 & 50
\n<\/span>1926<\/b> Route 66 C\u2019go to LA (not coast coast)
\n<\/span>1927<\/b> Carquinez Bridge replaces train & car ferry crossing of SF Bay for Lincoln Hwy travelers
\n<\/span>1956<\/b> The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, aka FHA signed into law
\n<\/span>1955-1968<\/b> Jane Jacobs fights Robert Moses over bulldozing NYC neighborhood for freeways
\n<\/span>1959-1991<\/b> Embarcadero freeway stopped in SF
\n<\/span>1961<\/b> American river parkway conceived Sacramento
\n<\/span>1976<\/b> Bikecentennial (1750 TransCon cyclists)
\n<\/span>1979<\/b> Krieg solo TransCons, Astoria, OR to Washington, DC after coma. paralysis, clinical death
\n<\/span>1983<\/b> Krieg ride featured in bike voice of its day, \u201cBicycling\u201d magazine. Plants seed for long distance health cause rides
\n<\/span>1986<\/b> Krieg TransCon reaches 40 million for cause of recumbents, head injury and coast-to-coast Greenbelt (as it was called at the time)
\n<\/span>1986<\/b> Rails to Trails begins
\n<\/span>1988<\/b> National Bicycle Greenway Vision Statement proclaimed.
\n<\/span>1988-1993<\/b> Cycle America Regional Directories, 60K books call for NBG
\n<\/span>1995<\/strong> National Bicycle Greenway goes on line with\u00a0BikeRoute.com, one of the first\u00a0few hundred web sites in the world
\n<\/span>1995<\/b> American Discovery Tour
\n<\/span>2000<\/b> Cycle America 2000 SF to DC
\n<\/span>2001<\/b> Washington DC to Pittsburgh car free connection soft opening
\n<\/span>2002<\/b> First NBG Mayors\u2019 Ride Washington, DC to SF
\n<\/span>2004<\/b> Carquinez Bridge bike way completed
\n<\/span>2006<\/b> NBG Anchor cities designated
\n<\/span>2008<\/b> Omaha – Council Bluffs bridge first bike\/ped crossing of Missouri River
\n<\/span>2010<\/b> Google launches bike maps
\n<\/span>2013<\/b> NBG coast to coast route on line
\n<\/span>2013<\/b> America\u2019s First Downtown Greenway, the Indianapolis Cultural Trail
\n<\/span>2018<\/b> National Bicycle Greenway moves to\u00a0<\/span>Indianapolis<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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