Everyone has heard of the Lincoln Highway, and probably also the Meridian Highway which went through Polk County. But a new one for me was the “High Line Cutoff.” Promoters for this road envisioned a more direct route running south from Central City across a new bridge and on east to Omaha. The sandy Lincoln Highway arcing up along the Platte and U.P. railroads was “a joke,” claimed the...
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