Lincoln Highway news in Ohio

From the DailyRecord.com – “Lincoln Way Elementary School gained distinction for its heritage on the Lincoln Highway Friday, earning a proclamation from the mayor of Wooster and an official replica of the historical markers that lined the original 1928 route.”:
http://www.the-daily-record.com/news/article/2387292

An article about the Lincoln Highway Buy-Way yardsale from CantonRep.com:
http://xrl.us/6xmh

“Buy-Way Sale a big hit in Crawford County”:
http://xrl.us/6xm4

Canton Lincoln Highway bricks preserved for the Great Platte River Road Archway Museum in Kearney, Nebraska:
http://xrl.us/6xk9

[Anyone have a semi to deliver these?]

and an update:
http://xrl.us/6xmw

The last half of this Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article about the National Hamburger Festival is all about the Lincoln Highway Steel Trolley Diner in Lisbon, OH:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07196/801262-34.stm

CantonRep.com, July 31 contained the following letter:

With great interest, I read the article “Book traces the nation’s first coast-to-coast route” (July 23). My parents, Moses and Lydia Gingerich, with five children, made the trip in 1921 with a remodeled 1915 Model T truck on the graveled Lincoln Highway, Route 30, leaving from Bucklin, Kan., in Ford County near Dodge City. How often I would sit and listen to the story of their eight-day trip to Hartville, Ohio, patching tubes, driving on gravel roads and living in a remodeled small pick up truck. My Amish family, too poor to afford a train ticket, was advised to buy the pickup and resell it in Ohio. Precious memories for me – I was born in 1924.

John E. Gingerich, Lake Township

Tragedy at an on-grade railroad crossing in Bucyrus on the LH from the Ahnentafel Blog:
http://agnette.wordpress.com/

2 thoughts on “Lincoln Highway news in Ohio

  1. hi, i am wanting to meet a friend at a really cute bed and breakfast or hotel/motel near the delphos area. we are meeting halfway between peru, in and mansfield, oh. can you suggest a place? i have tried many searches, but can’t find much other than chain hotels. something in the country would be nice. we are traveling the historic route 30. thanks

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