Alice Huyler Ramsey


Thursday 11th November 1886

Born on this day, Alice Huyler Ramsey, the first woman to drive across the United States from coast to coast. On June 9, 1909, the 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, began a 3,800-mile journey from Hell’s Gate in Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California, in a green Maxwell 30. On her 59-day trek she was accompanied by two older sisters-in-law and another female friend, none of whom could drive a car. They arrived amid great fanfare on August 7.


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