HOW MANY FAMOUS AMERICAN NAMES can one set of traffic signs get into one display? Lincoln, Roosevelt, Valley Forge, Philadelphia. We grow up around these names and sights and history and yet we barely notice. To us, these are not even famous names anymore. They are highways, routes, directions on a compass. You want I-76 East, toward the Liberty Bell, not Valley Forge. We know Lincoln Drive really means Wissahickon. We know Roosevelt really means "the Boulevard.". We know Valley Forge really means King of Prussia, another name we've lived with all our lives, as if a town by that name makes sense, let alone a mall.

Most American cities are proud to have a single Alamo. We've got Independence Hall. Trump THAT?! Most states wear the bloody shirt of battle proudly, from Shilo to Pearl Harbor, from Ticonderoga to Ground Zero. We live so close to Gettysburg we think it's a town rather than an idea. We live so close to everything that mattered in American history that even our amazing green traffic signs seem ordinary.