THE FAMOUS RACE

By Walter Thayer
Published on September 1, 1977

Box 2175, Wenatchee, Washington 98801

In August 1931 the Highway Department decided to celebrate the
completion of concrete paving across Langlade County, Wisconsin
with a ‘wheelbarrow race’, and to advertise State Hiway #
26 (now U.S. 45) as a North-South arterial across Wisconsin.

The race was over a 200 mile course from Waupum to Eagle River,

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