Transportation
Life Along Route 1 in the 1940s
What one photographer discovered documenting life between the Nation's Capital and the Mason Dixon Line.
Before I-95 became America's primary North-South highway along the Atlantic, many drivers relied on Route 1 to get from city to city between Key West, Florida, and Fort Kent, Maine.
Completed in the 1920s, Route 1 (and many other pre-WW II roads) lost relevance three decades later, when the federal government began building its vast interstate network.