The Lincoln Motor Court: A masterclass in American exceptionalism

The Lincoln Motor Court: A masterclass in American exceptionalism

MANNS CHOICE, Pennsylvania — In January of 1941, hundreds of businessmen from communities all along the 7 miles of the Lincoln Highway that stretched from Everett to the top of Tull’s Hill met at the Ford Bedford Inn. They discussed plans for improving a highway that was first paved and modernized in 1919. Edmund S. Shuck, the president of the Pennsylvania Lincoln Highway Association, warned that the new “streamlined” Pennsylvania Turnpike would…