October 11, 2002: Mileage sign on old US 20 (now County Road D20) leaving Webster City.
Bryan Farr of Massachusetts wants US 20, the longest US route in the country, to be celebrated as a famous, historic road. He’s created the Historic US Route 20 Association and this summer is traveling across the country on as much of its 1926 alignment as possible. That means when he gets to Iowa, he will be see almost nothing of the route as it is signed today. (The Early-Holstein route went through Galva until 1937.) He will travel segments that were still US 20 as late as the turn of this century, though.
The Worcester Telegram wrote about him and US 20 in Massachusetts.
Here’s a blog about his trip, but the Twitter and Instagram accounts are more up to date. (Let the record show that this is the first time I’ve linked to feeds from either. I’m an Internet fuddy duddy with a blog, and I’m OK with that.)