Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Town was center of proposed short route 70 years ago
Odessa once campaigned strongly for better roads.
All through 1920s and into the early 1930s, emphasis was on the North Central Highway, today’s State Route 28, as the shortest and fastest cross-state highway.
Then in 1937, a new plan came into being. A direct route from California and the south to Grand Coulee Dam could pass right through Odessa on State Route 4 (now State Route 21), leading from Highway 395 at Lind, and then through Odessa, and Wilbur and on to Grand Coulee Dam.
As fate would have it, in ensuing years, the preferred route from the south to Grand Coulee Dam later evolved to t...
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