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 Signs were an essential part of my travels around the United States.  Often, the signs telling about an interesting place were the closest I got to the place due to delivery schedules and road restrictions.  Signs let me know on a regular basis that I was on the right road (or sometimes that I was on the wrong one).  Signs also helped define the nature of our country and its different regions.  I never realized how many colleges, universities, seminaries and academies there were in the U.S. until I took notice of the signs along the interstates proclaiming such institutions.  And museums - I've seen signs for the Ava Gardner Museum (Smithfield, NC), antique car museums, quilt museums, doll museums, toy museums, airplane museums, Civil War museums,  and dozens of others I can't think of at the moment.  

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 University of Alabama sign.

I.65

This section contains signs representing many of the states I drove through.  The pictures include highway markers, billboards, historical markers, building signs, property markers and other forms of verbal communication.  As noted in other sections of this site, if I have mislabeled a picture, send me an e-mail and I will correct it.  If you have a picture of an interesting sign that I have missed, attach it to an e-mail and send it on with a description of what and where it is about.  I will try to incorporate it into the site.  Now let's continue the tour.

Editor's note: The following photographs have been enhanced as much as I could manage.

 Pinson Mounds, Casey Jones sign.

This is probably on I.20/59, near Chattanooga.
Grand Canyon sign. Look "Inside the Mind of Mikie Metric." 

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 Tugaloo Lake, Georgia sign.
On I.40, west of Flagstaff, Arizona, within 60 miles of Grand Canyon, but I did not go to see it.   Tyler Fields wrote informing me that the Tugaloo River and Hartwell Lake are on the border of Georgia and South Carolina.  Thanks, Tyler.
Strip show billboard in Florida. Welcome to Delaware. Fort Courage tourist attraction, Arizona.
Common tourist attraction throughout Florida (and elsewhere). In I.95. Delaware is about 15 miles wide at this point. I'll bet the Fort Courage Trading Post and tourist trap is also on I.40 in Arizona.
Tampa, Orlando signs from I.275, Florida. Hollow Farm, probably a cattle ranch in central Florida. Disney World sign, Florida.
Approaching the split where I.275 goes through Tampa and St. Pete, I.75 heads south and I.4 goes east to Orlando. Hollow Farms, the entrance to one of Central Florida's many cattle ranches. This is as close as I made it to seeing Disney World, off I.4 in central Florida.
Georgia welcome sign. Advertising an ostrich ranch in Georgia. Highway sign on I.285 around Atlanta, GA.
"We're glad Georgia's on your mind." welcome sign Georgia ostrich offer. I.285, around Atlanta, Georgia. The speed limit is 55, but even at 65 mph you're blocking traffic
Downtown Chicago loop from I.94. Plymouth Neon assembly plant, Illinois. Wyandot Cave in southern Indiana.
The Loop goes through the heart of downtown Chicago. Plymouth Neon assembly plant in Belvedere off I.90 in north-central Illinois. Wyandotte Caves and Marengo Cave off I.64 in south-central Indiana.
Boondocks, a truck and travel stop in central Iowa. Kentucky welcome sign. Abe Lincoln's birthplace, Kentucky.
Boondock's is a travel center/truck stop/restaurant/motel complex, I believe near I.35 in central Iowa. Welcome to Kentucky. This is probably entering Louisville on I.64 or I.65, crossing the Ohio River. Abraham Lincoln's birthplace off I.65, near Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

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