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État
Neuf: Livre neuf, n'ayant jamais été lu ni utilisé, en parfait état, sans pages manquantes ni ...
Brand
Unbranded
MPN
9780738568485
ISBN
9780738568485
Book Title
DuPont Highway
Book Series
Images of America Ser.
Item Length
9.2 in
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year
2009
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.3 in
Author
William Francis, Michael Hahn
Genre
Travel, History
Topic
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / General
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
10.5 Oz
Number of Pages
128 Pages

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The original DuPont Highway, found on maps as Route 13 between Dover and Wilmington and as Route 113 between Dover and the southern border with Maryland, was the nation's first divided highway when its expansion between Dover and Wilmington was completed in 1934. It had been officially dedicated 10 years earlier as the Coleman DuPont Road. Thomas Coleman du Pont, a descendant of E. I. du Pont and a two-time U.S. senator, had championed the road and paid nearly $4 million of his own money toward its completion, even after turning the project over to the newly created Delaware State Highway Department. While other philanthropists started schools, libraries, parks, and hospitals, Coleman du Pont said, I will build a monument a hundred miles high and lay it on the ground. He was close. The DuPont Highway measured 96.7 miles.

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Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
ISBN-10
0738568481
ISBN-13
9780738568485
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71650721

Product Key Features

Book Title
DuPont Highway
Author
William Francis, Michael Hahn
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / General
Publication Year
2009
Book Series
Images of America Ser.
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, History
Number of Pages
128 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
0.3 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
10.5 Oz

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Title: New book chronicles historic DuPont Highway Author: Adam Zewe Publisher: Community News Date: 3/24/09 Looking to avoid the inevitable summertime congestion caused by flocks of beachgoers migrating south on Rt. 1, many drivers spurn the superhighway and opt for the slower and steadier pace of Rt. 13. But barreling along the DuPont Highway, few realize their tires are spinning down one of the country's oldest and most significant highways. Delawareans Michael Hahn and William Francis explore the unique road's history in pictorial detail in their new book, "The DuPont Highway." The DuPont Highway was the first dual highway in the nation -- that is, a highway with two separate lanes divided by a grassy median, said Hahn. Now a standard practice in highway construction, the idea was novel when Thomas Coleman Du Pont dreamed it up, he said. Du Pont, a Kentuckian trained as a civil engineer, became determined to build a road connecting Wilmington with Selbyville just to prove it could be done. He also had an ulterior motive, Hahn said. Du Pont was an automobile-lover in a time when the only roads were poorly maintained and built with dirt, making them completely useless in the rain. There was no national or state highway department in the early 1900s, so Du Pont formed a company and undertook the project through the private sector, Hahn said. His vision was a 300-foot corridor with adjacent roads, bike lanes, light rail lines, carriage lanes and tree lines. He started buying land to make that dream a reality in 1916, but it didn't evolve that way. Farmers challenged the condemnation process, and it got expensive, Hahn explained. Without eminent domain, Du Pont ended up paying four times what some pieces of land were worth. After a year, Du Pont had completed $4 million of road in 9-foot-wide sections between Selbyville and Milford, said Hahn. Out of money, he appealed to the Delaware General Assembly to create a highway department and finish his road, Hahn said, and in 1917, that's exactly what happened. The Delaware highway department, the precursor to DelDOT, eventually connected the road to Dover and south Wilmington, near the present-day Rt. 13/40 split, Hahn said. Though there were probably only a few thousand cars registered in Delaware at the time, the road had huge implications for downstate chicken farmers who could now ship products north instead of relying on the monopolizing railroads, said Hahn. Before Rt. 1 was finished in 1995, The DuPont Highway was the primary connection between upstate and downstate Delaware, he said. Ironically, many people today see DuPont's 97-year-old vision for a 300-foot transportation corridor as a progressive idea that could alleviate a lot of congestion, Hahn said. The DuPont Highway, affectionately called Delaware's Mother Road, is much more than a highway, Hahn said, it's an example of what can happen when technology and ingenuity come together. "I think the book is valuable because it documents Delaware's early transportation history in an illustration book which folks can understand and marvel at the changes of technology and landscape," Hahn said. The book is available at Borders, Ninth Street Books in Wilmington, the Delaware Made General Store in Dover, Happy Harry's stores across the state and online at Amazon.com or arcadiapublishing.com for #21.99.
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
Trade

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