Popular Culture Review Vol. 13, No. 1, January 2002 | Page 135

The Theodore Roosevelt Highway

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Historical Society owns the original. A smaller copy is located in Mandan.
After entering Montana, the TRIH goes through country called the "'Hiline” taking the colloquial name of the old Great Northern Railroad; the road itself
also takes the name Hi-line, and it goes through a ‘'Roosevelt County.” The county
is named for TR but not for the TRIH; it predates the Highway. One of the Hi-line
towns, Glasgow, has a “Roosevelt Hotel” just off the route, but it takes its name
from FDR, not from TR or the TRIH.
In Chester, a gasoline station on the south side of U.S. 2 is still known as
the Roosevelt Station. Its owner. Bob Nordstrom, told me that he knew little of the
station’s history, but does know that it came to be called the Roosevelt Station
because it stood on the TRIH. Patrons of a local cafe said the same thing: “It’s
always been the Roosevelt Station,” they told me. One man said he was 76 and had
lived there all his life. The building, he said, was the same as