Public service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. For nearly 60 years, route 66 campbell ferry travelers across the country. Drivers may have been getting their kicks on route 62. The story in historian john sellers shares that story with us. Road, fora for a good a good, easily traveled, easily identified highway across the country came with the very first motorcars. Burgeoning this building of automobiles that every small town was filling out these roads, and the demand to be able to open up a map and go from place to place on a map was just so strong that the government said we are going to start this deal of numbered highways. Known as thed was birthplace of route 66. Absolutely. Springfield had a man named john whoodruff, an attorney, would come near is an attorney for the railroad and was entrepreneur. He was an absolute genius marketing and making things happen. He was one of the committee of people that were p
Against the contrasting trajectories of the north and south, the growth of the cotton kingdom against the gradual you can watch this and other American History programs on her website where all of our video is archived. Cspan. Org history. Welcome to springfield, missouri on American History tv. Our cspan cities tour producers recently visited springfield to explore its rich history and literary culture. This city is located in the southwest part of missouri in the ozark mountain region. It is the thirdlargest city in the state, with a population of about 167,000. With help from our Cable Partners, in the next hour we will share some of the cities tour three with you. We begin by riding along with john sellers as he explains the citys key connections to the historic route 66. The idea for a good road, for a good, easily traveled and easily identified highway across the country came with the very first motorcars. Burgeoning this building of automobiles in every small town, he was fillin