Growing up, one of my favorite pastimes was tracing old roads in Shelby County, Illinois. A friend and I would head to the courthouse to look up old county maps, then head out and walk or bike the old roads. Some of the best exploring was in what is now Eagle Creek State Park on Lake Shelbyville - it was a farming area before the Kaskaskia River was dammed in the late 1960s, and it was always interesting to find the remains of an old farm site along an abandoned country road - all the fun of archaeology without really leaving home.
I recently discovered that other folks share the same interest in old roads - there's an email list devoted to discussion of US 40, the "National Road," which goes through my old (1991-1996) hometown of Effingham, Illinois:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/route-40/
Here's an article on US 80.
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