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The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly called the Interstate Highway System, is a network of highways (also called expressways). The entire system, as of 2004, had a total length of 46,837 miles. While Interstate Highways usually receive substantial federal funding and comply with federal standards, they are owned, built, and operated by the states in which they are located. The system serves nearly all major U.S. cities. Unlike counterparts in most other industrialized countries, many Interstates pass through downtown areas, facilitating the emergence of automobile-oriented postwar suburban development patterns, a phenomenon also known as urban sprawl.
The interstate system was authorized by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956. It had been lobbied for by major U.S. automobile manufacturers and championed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower- who was influenced by both his experiences as a young soldier crossing the country in 1919 following the route of the Lincoln Highway and his appreciation of the German autobahn network - as a necessary component of a national defense system. It would be able to provide key ground transport of military supplies and troop deployments.
Initial federal planning for a nationwide highway system began in 1921 when the Bureau of Public Roads asked the Army to provide it with a list of roads it considered necessary for national defense, resulting in the Pershing Map. Later that decade, highways such as the New York parkway system had been built as part of local or state highway systems. As automotive traffic increased, planners saw a need for such an interconnected national system to supplement the existing, largely non-freeway, United States Numbered Highway system. By the late 1930s, planning had expanded to a system of new superhighways.
Although construction continues, the removal of the last traffic signal on Interstate 90 in Wallace, Idaho, on September 15, 1991 is often cited as the completion of the Interstate System. The initial cost estimate fwas $25 billion over twelve years; it ended up costing $114 billion and taking 35 years to complete
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Dedicated in 1892, and donated by the nited Italian Societies, this bronze statue of Christopher Columbus holds a globe on his left hand. The inscription on the granite stone pedestral reads:
A
CRISTOFORO COLOMBO
GL'ITALIANI
DI
NEW HAVEN
1892
The statue was recast in 1955, and in 1992, it received a memorial stone dedicated by the Greater New Haven Columbus Day Committee. The statue is the site of the annual wreath-laying on Columbus Day.
National Register #71000914 (1971)
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Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, known locally as Pepe's, was founded in 1925 by Italian immigrant Frank Pepe. Pepe moved his restaurant to its current location on Wooster Street in the 1930s. Known for its fresh white clam pizza, Pepe's originated the New Haven-style thin-crust apizza, baked in coal-fired brick ovens.
In 1999, Pepe's was named to the James Beard Foundation's list of "America's Classics".
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