America’s Historic Roads
Puzzle 80 · Building and Remembering the Network · Page 110 in print
Preserving Historic Corridors
Congress created the Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program in 1999. Its work joined care for historic sites with preservation planning, research, and education about the route.
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Adaptive Reuse
Putting the former station to a new use while retaining it.
Cooperative
Grassroots group that organized to preserve the trading post.
Cost Estimates
Projected restoration expenses included in the bridge study.
Cost Sharing
Partners combining money for preservation projects.
Documentaries
Films bringing historical sources and testimony together.
Park Service: The People and Stories of Route (opens a new tab)
Event Space
Proposed gathering use for the rehabilitated station.
Gasconade
River crossed by the historic bridge studied for preservation.
Grants
Financial assistance used to support preservation projects.
Home Videos
Personal moving-image records of roadside life.
Park Service: The People and Stories of Route (opens a new tab)
Meadow Gold
Tulsa district containing the planned station rehabilitation and reuse.
Newspapers
Published records used to investigate the road’s past.
Park Service: The People and Stories of Route (opens a new tab)
Oral History
Recorded personal testimony contributing to the road’s history.
Park Service: The People and Stories of Route (opens a new tab)
Postcards
Printed images and messages documenting roadside places.
Park Service: The People and Stories of Route (opens a new tab)
Pump Canopy
Shelter over fuel pumps included in a Tulsa station’s rehabilitation plan.
Stabilization
Work intended to keep the trading post’s surviving structure secure.
Sources
- Route 66: 2018 Cost-Share Grants AnnouncedNational Park Service
- NPS: Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program - National Trails Intermountain Region - DOI Regions 6, 7, 8National Park Service
- The People and Stories of Route 66National Park Service