3-644: The Susquehanna Trail was an auto trail in the United States linking Washington, D.C. , with Niagara Falls, New York . It passed through Baltimore, Maryland ; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ; Williamsport, Pennsylvania ; and Buffalo, New York . In relatively modern terms, the Susquehanna Trail roughly followed the following highways: An alternate ran from Washington to Harrisburg via U.S. Route 240 and U.S. Route 15 through Frederick, Maryland . Auto trail The system of auto trails
6-515: The Lincoln Highway Association, were well-known and well-organized, while others were the work of fly-by-night promoters, to the point that anyone with enough paint and the will to do so could set up a trail. Trails were not usually linked to road improvements, although counties and states often prioritized road improvements because they were on trails. In the mid-to-late 1920s, the auto trails were essentially replaced with
9-473: Was an informal network of marked routes that existed in the United States and Canada in the early part of the 20th century. Marked with colored bands on utility poles , the trails were intended to help travellers in the early days of the automobile . Auto trails were usually marked and sometimes maintained by organizations of private individuals. Some, such as the Lincoln Highway , maintained by
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