Map of the Meridian Road. (Map of the Meridian Road: Showing Every City, Town, Village and Hamlet Throughout Its Entire Length) 1915

Old map of Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, United States of America.

-Canada border in North Dakota to Galveston, Texas, and the U.S.--Mexico border at Laredo. The proposed route would pass through the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. To increase the commercial and political appeal of the highway, the map purportedly shows "every city, town, village and hamlet throughout its entire length." Besides issuing brochures and circulars aimed at convincing citizens of the need for a national road system, the NHA was a prolific producer of maps. Cartographic work was done at an office in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, where approximately 40 people were employed on the property of Charles Henry Davis (1865--1951), president and cofounder of the NHA. Davis believed that these maps would be helpful to a national highways commission that he hoped would be established and that they would assist the states in integrating their roads into a national system. Congress never embraced the plan put forward by the NHA, but the organization and its maps helped to promote the cause of a national road network.

Created by Meridian Road Association, John C. Mulford, National Highways Association in 1915.

• Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
• "Scale 1:5,000,000"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
• Original resource extent: 1 map : color ; 64 x 15 centimeters.
• Original resource at: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.
• Content in English.
• Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Map Tags

1915

Highway Planning

John C. Mulford

Kansas

Map

Meridian Road Association

National Highways Association

Nebraska

North Dakota

Oklahoma

Roads

South Dakota

Texas

United States Of America