{"id":13823,"date":"2019-01-16T07:58:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T15:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=13823"},"modified":"2023-10-18T19:59:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T02:59:27","slug":"table-of-contents-how-indianapolis-built-america-and-how-it-will-rebuild-it-with-the-national-bicycle-greenway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2019\/01\/16\/table-of-contents-how-indianapolis-built-america-and-how-it-will-rebuild-it-with-the-national-bicycle-greenway\/","title":{"rendered":"Table of Contents: &#8220;How Indianapolis Built America and H\u0010ow it will Rebuild it with the National Bicycle Greenway&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13821\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2019\/01\/16\/preface-how-indianapolis-built-america-and-how-it-will-rebuild-it-with-the-national-bicycle-greenway\/screen-shot-2019-01-16-at-10-18-27-am\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-16-at-10.18.27-AM.png?fit=356%2C134&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"356,134\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot 2019-01-16 at 10.18.27 AM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-16-at-10.18.27-AM.png?fit=356%2C134&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13821 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-16-at-10.18.27-AM.png?resize=356%2C134\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"134\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"s1\">Preface<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Timeline of Coast-to-Coast Travel <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"s1\">1<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Manifest Destiny and Taming the Western Frontier for Carl <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Fisher and the Automobile Age<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">2<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Diamond Chain of Indianapolis, 1890 to present<br \/>\n<\/span>3<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Carl Fisher, PT Barnum of Automobile Age<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"s1\">4<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Lincoln Hwy of 1914, first Coast-to-Coast Road<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">5<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Why Lincoln did not pass through Indianapolis or Colorado<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">6<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Indy reinvents as Amateur Sports Capital of America<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">7<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Ray Irvin, Mr Greenway<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">8<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Indy Canal<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">9<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Central Canal Towpth<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">10 Monon Trail<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">11 America\u2019s First Downtown Greenway &#8211; the Indianapolis Cultural Trail<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table of Contents Preface Timeline of Coast-to-Coast Travel 1\u00a0 Manifest Destiny and Taming the Western Frontier for Carl Fisher and&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2019\/01\/16\/table-of-contents-how-indianapolis-built-america-and-how-it-will-rebuild-it-with-the-national-bicycle-greenway\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-indy-built-america"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-3AX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13344,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2018\/09\/08\/carl-fishers-last-years-in-flrida\/","url_meta":{"origin":13823,"position":0},"title":"Carl Fisher&#8217;s Last Years in Florida","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"September 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"In my research about Carl Fisher for \"How Indianapolis Built America and H\u0010ow it will Rebuild it with the National Bicycle Greenway\", I came across this rare photo of him. 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