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Hawaii Route 570 is a 1.1-mile corridor which follows Ahukini Road from the entrance of Lihue Airport to Hawaii Route 56 in Lihue. This corridor was originally designated as Hawaii Route 57 in 1955 and originally extended east of Lihue Airport to Ahukini Point. Hawaii Route 57 was truncated to the then new entrance of Lihue Airport in 1965. The corridor took the current number of 570 during the 1970s when it was designated a Secondary State Highway. This page is part of the Gribblenation Hawaii Roads series.  A compellation of all Hawaii-related media from both Gribblenation and RoadwayWiz can be found by clicking  here .  Part 1; the history Hawaii Route 570 Hawaii Route 570 serves as the main entrance to Lihue Airport by way of Ahukini Road.  The origin of Lihue Airport began in 1944 when the Civil Aeronautics Administration deemed Port Allen Airport as being insufficient to accommodate even two-engine aircraft.  The Civil Aeronautics Administration was un...

Walking around the Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, you'll begin to connect the humble beginnings of our 30th President with the quiet humility of the man known as "Silent Cal."   Plymouth is a small community in central Vermont with over 600 residents.  Coolidge was born here on July 4, 1872.  And it was here in a parlor of his home that Coolidge took the Oath of Office early in the morning of August 3, 1923, upon the death of Warren G. Harding.  Coolidge suddenly became the 30th President of the United States. The modest home where Coolidge was born on July 4, 1872.  The home was attached to the general store (Cilley's Store) that the Coolidge's then owned and operated. Coolidge would attend Amherst College in Massachusetts.  He would start a law office in Northampton, Mass., where he would later serve as mayor and a representative in the state legislature and Senate. Coolidge would later serve as Lieutenant Governor and later Governor ...

The Bridalveil Falls Bridges are three structures located in Yosemite Valley beneath the namesake Bridalveil Fall.   These structures were designed/constructed as part of the Bridalveil Fall Road by Oscar Parlier in 1913 as the first reinforced concrete bridges in Yosemite National Park. The Bridalveil Fall Road was a short spur of the Wawona Road which was first proposed by the Washburn Brothers in 1881 and served wheeled traffic until sometime after the Wawona Tunnel opened in 1933. The Bridalveil Fall Bridges are now as part of a trail are the only known spans still standing from the era of United States Calvary oversite of Yosemite National Park. The Bridalveil Fall Road can be seen branching south of the Wawona Road on the 1930 Yosemite National Park & Curry Company map.   Part 1; the history of the Bridalveil Fall Bridges Bridalveil Fall is one of the most prominent features of Yosemite Valley.  This Plunge type waterfall is fed by Bridalveil Creek ...