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Blue Mound Road, Wisconsin's first divided highway

Blue Mound Road


Originally built as a military highway in the 1830s, Blue Mound Road extended from Milwaukee west to Blue Mounds, where the project ran out of money and was thus stopped. Blue Mound Road became a four-lane highway in the 1920s, one of the first of its kind, as state senators used it regularly to travel between Madison and Milwaukee.

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Related Topics: Industrialization and Urbanization
Automobile Culture
Creator: McCoy, Robert; Hauser, Stephen
Pub Data: 1946. National Museum of American History.
Citation: McCoy, Robert; Hauser, Stephen. "Blue Mound Road." (1946). Online facsimile at:  http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/collection/object_666.htm
l; Visited on: 11/22/2009
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