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.
An 1876 portrait of President Abraham Lincoln has a new home in the Batavia Public Library, along the Lincoln Highway in Batavia, Illinois.
The annual Driving the Dixie Classic Car Cruise stopped in Chicago Heights, Illinois, where the Dixie Highway intersects the Lincoln Highway. Both the Dixie and the Lincoln were the brainchild of entrepreneur Carl Fisher.
The Ashland Area Convention and Visitors Bureau is sponsoring the fifth annual Lincoln Highway Car Show and Swap Meet, on Saturday, August 13 from 9 am to 2:30 pm, in Ashland, Ohio.
On July 26, 1916, the Kearney Hub wrote about the installation of the last Lincoln Highway mile markers, which would “last indefinitely.”
An original 1928 Lincoln Highway concrete marker sits in the cul-de-sac of the driveway of the Oscar Swan Country Inn in Geneva, Illinois.
The Indiana chapter of the Lincoln Highway Association is raising money to install a kiosk commemorating the original route of the Lincoln Highway through La Porte, Indiana.
The Indiana chapter of the Lincoln Highway Association is one of eleven non-profit organizations that were awarded grants of up to $2,000 by Indiana Humanities and Indiana Landmarks. It will use the grant to help fund an interpretive driving guide for the Lincoln Highway in Indiana.
Danny Gruber gives an overview of the Lincoln Highway in Nebraska and its upcoming centennial.