The Lincoln Highway was America's first transcontinental automobile road, and Henry Bourne Joy, first president of the Lincoln Highway Association in 1913 and also president of the Packard Motor Car Company, is sometimes called the father of the nation's modern highway system. Joy said that his effort to create the Lincoln Highway was "the greatest thing I ever did." The old Lincoln Highway passed over the crest of the nearby hill at the historic Summit, the highest point on the original highway's 3,500-mile route from New York to San Francisco. The coast-to-coast highway existed as a private enterprise, managed by the Lincoln Highway Association and financed through memberships and donations from automobile and road building industries. The association lobbied state and federal governments to support road construction, and in 1916 the federal government began granting matching funds to the states, bringing some improvement to the network of primitive dirt trails that made up the Lincoln Highway across Wyoming. Much of the original Lincoln Highway evolved into US 30 in the 1920s and Interstate 80 in the 1950s. The Henry B. Joy Monument was first placed at one of Joy's favorite camping spots beside the Lincoln Highway in Wyoming's Great Divide Basin west of Rawlins, where he was camping in 1916 when he saw what he considered the most beautiful sunset he had ever witnessed and expressed a wish to be buried there. Although he was not buried at that site, his family provided and placed the monument after his death in 1936, and it was moved from that remote location in 2001 to protect it from increasing vandalism.