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POSTPONED The Pennsylvania Turnpike

Henry Auditorium at The Lutheran Home, 1 S Home Ave, Topton, PA 19562

 

This event is going to be postponed to June 20th. 

 

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The Pennsylvania Turnpike -  “The World’s Finest & Only Tunnel Superhighway”

 

The Pennsylvania Turnpike is a toll highway operated by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission. A controlled-access highway, it runs for three hundred and sixty miles across the state of Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Turnpike was initially designed to improve automobile transportation across the mountains of Pennsylvania. The plan was to use seven tunnels that were built for the abandoned South Pennsylvania Railroad in the 1880s. The road opened on October 1, 1940, between Irwin and Carlisle, PA. It is one of the earliest, long-distance, limited-access highways in the United States. It’s also the highway that single-handedly rejuvenated the famous restaurant chain, Howard Johnson’s. The Pennsylvania Turnpike served as a precedent for additional limited-access toll roads and the Interstate Highway System.

 

Join us for a presentation by the Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles. 

 

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