The transportation bill introduced by Republicans in the House of Representatives on January 31 would eliminate the National Scenic Byways program.
Steve Haughey has uploaded maps of what would become the Lincoln Highway in California from the 1914 Hamilton’s Illustrated Auto Road Map, which you can think of as a combination of AAA TripTik strip maps and Google Street View. You can also buy large-format prints of the maps through Zazzle.
Just a reminder that you can follow the 2012 Lincoln Highway National Conference on Facebook for up-to-date information.
Bob Lichty, past president of the Lincoln Highway Association and former board member of the Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor, will be speaking at the National Packard Museum in Warren, Ohio on February 18, 2012 from 11:00 am to 12:00 noon, on The Lincoln Highway Revisited.
For more information on the National Packard Museum, visit its website at packardmuseum.org.
Rich Bartke, president of the El Cerrito Historical Society, writes about the Lincoln Highway and its route through El Cerrito, California, north of Oakland. The road has a long history, known as El Camino Real during the Spanish colonial period.
Palmantier’s Motel, a vintage motor inn near Minerva, Ohio on the Lincoln Highway, is experiencing a boom in business because of a renewed interest in oil and natural gas drilling in eastern Ohio.
The Vermillion Institute, built in 1846 in Hayesville, Ohio, has been bought by a historic preservation consulting group and will be restored. It originally housed a college and later a high school, but it has been vacant since 1929. The building is at the corner of Main Street (Lincoln Highway) and College Street.
The Illinois Department of Transportation has approved design plans for highway overpasses spanning Canadian National Railway tracks in two Illinois locations, at Lincoln Highway (U.S. 30) in Lynwood and at Ogden Avenue (U.S. 34) in Aurora. Planners opted for overpasses instead of underpasses because it would save money and take less time. CN must pay for the vast majority of the construction costs.
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For the sixth year, the Jersey City Police Department held a ceremony to remember police officers Shawn Carson and Robert Nguyen, who died on Christmas night 2005 in a tragic accident on the Lincoln Highway Bridge, which was renamed in their honor.
The Illinois Lincoln Highway Coalition has unveiled its latest Lincoln Highway mural in the village of Frankfort.