Project Name: USH 20 (including parts of the Grant, Blue Pole and Antelope Trial highways)

Project Location: South Sioux City to the Nebraska/Wyoming state line

Project Client: Nebraska State Historic Preservation Office.

Project Summary: Much of the USH 20 route across northern Nebraska had previously been part of the Blue Pole, Grant or Antelope Trail highways. It appears, however, that USH 20 was the first roadway designated to cross the entire northern portion of the state, having been named when the federal highway system was identified in 1926. Indeed, USH 20 was part of a national roadway that came to be known as "the last transcontinental." Since its designation, USH 20 has changed much in Nebraska. Parts of the old road have been abandoned, while others portions carry only local traffic. But it remains today, an artifact of Nebraska’s transportation history.

Survey Results: Over 150 surveyable examples of roadside architecture, or of the old roadway itself, were identified on the alignments studied for the USH 20 project. All properties were appropriately noted and included in the record and report provided at project conclusion.