GREEN RIVER — A Lincoln Highway documentary on Wyoming PBS showcases Sweetwater County locations, according to the Sweetwater County Historical Museum.

The “100 Years on the Lincoln Highway” documentary is the story of America’s coast-to-coast highway, 3,389 miles from New York to San Francisco, established in 1913.

The museum says the term “highway” was little more than a euphemism. At first, merely a sequence of primitive dirt roads and even rutted two-track routes, the Lincoln Highway improved as the years passed. The route runs across Wyoming from Pine Bluffs in Laramie County through Rock Springs and Green River in Sweetwater County, then west to Evanston. With the adoption of the numbered highway system in 1926, most of the route became U.S. Highway 30, followed decades later by I

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