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 cost the state a $200,000 annual loss in business, depreciate property values, and create roughly $10,000,000 in state taxes as tourist spending shifted to the new road.