The Illinois communities of Geneva, St. Charles and Maple Park have welcomed the public art being installed by the Illinois Lincoln Highway Coalition as part of its Interpretive Mural Project.
Re:New DeKalb celebrated the first phase of its revitalization efforts of downtown DeKalb, Illinois. This included improvements to the streetscape of the Lincoln Highway and other downtown streets. Next, a downtown parking lot will be improved, including decorative lighting fixtures made from previously salvaged light poles removed from the Lincoln Highway.
The Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor in western Pennsylvania is finalizing plans for the location for a new Lincoln Highway Experience Center.
Riley’s Corner, the site of a gas station throughout the 1930s along Lincoln Way in Auburn, California, was for years considered the edge of town and the last place to get gasoline for the next 15 miles.
Shelton, Nebraska held its 14th annual Lincoln Highway Festival on July 24, featuring a car show, food, a wild west shooting, and the original brick surface of the old highway itself.
Two cities along the Lincoln Highway have been trying to eliminate at-grade railroad crossings since the 1920s.
The Calumet Avenue grade separation in Munster, Indiana was first brought up in 1922. The city is finally hoping to start construction next year and finish in 2016. The project is about three miles north of the intersection of Calumet Avenue and the Lincoln Highway (U.S. 30).
In Mansfield, Ohio, bridges over and under the railroads allowed the Lincoln Highway to be rerouted through the city by 1924, but other railroad crossings have not been separated to this day.
Ted Landphair, reporter and essayist for Voice of America, reminisces about the old two-lane roads that used to dominate car travel in the United States. In particular, he talks about a route that is seldom mentioned: U.S. 11, which connects New Orleans with Rouses Point, New York.
The Calhoun Street Bridge, linking Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, turns 150 years old this year. The Lincoln Highway went over this bridge.
In an interview with NPR, author Earl Swift discusses the impact of Carl Fisher, the founder of the Lincoln Highway, on the U.S.’s modern interstate highway system. His new book is The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers who Created the American Superhighways.
The Historic Virginian Hotel, on the Lincoln Highway in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, celebrates its 100th birthday this year.