The Lincoln Highway was an iconic mishmash of roads across 13 states whose construction began in 1913 as Carl Fisher pursued the most direct and safe coast-to-coast route. The original route stretched more than 3,300 miles from Times Square in New York to Lincoln Park in San Francisco, passing through Stockton, Tracy, Livermore, Dublin, and Oakland on its way to San Francisco. After the Yolo Causeway and Carquinez Bridge were completed, a third generation of the route emerged that took it through Solano County, crossing county roads such as present-day Midway Road and entering Vacaville by what is now East Monte Vista Avenue, which becomes Merchant Street. Fisher originally called it the coast-to-coast rock highway, and it was budgeted at $10 million to build. Franklin Seiberling and Henry Joy, identified as the founders and presidents of Goodyear, pledged support for U.S. Route 40, and Henry Joy suggested the name Route 40 after Abraham Lincoln's "40 acres and a mule" promise.