The Lincoln Highway, U.S. 30, will be widened from two lanes to four in Illinois between William Street in New Lenox to Harlem Avenue in Frankfort. Construction is expected to start in the summer of 2011.
The Opera House in Plainfield, Illinois, first built in 1889, will be restored to its 1912 glory. The landmark building is along the Lincoln Highway, known locally as Lockport Street.
The Nevada State Historic Preservation Office is conducting an online survey and holding meetings asking folks what historic resources should be preserved. If you want the Lincoln Highway to be considered, add your voice! The survey closes on May 1.
The Bristol Cultural and Historical Foundation is hosting a free presentation on Lincoln Highway on Sunday, April 3 at 2 p.m.
The Wyoming Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources has posted a whole series of videos on the Lincoln Highway in Wyoming:
Thanks to Bob Beaudoin for the tip!
Spring 2011 California Chapter Meeting
Saturday, April 2
12:00 noon
Urbano’s Mexican Restaurant
5825 Manzanita Ave (at Auburn Blvd)
Carmichael, CA 95608-0142
(916) 334-7122
We will have an election of officers since we postponed that at our last meeting.
There is limited parking in front of the restaurant but there is a driveway on the north side to ample parking in back. Hope to see you there!
You can let folks know you are planning to go at our Facebook event.
Check out this film from 1915 on the dedication of the Lincoln Highway, at its western terminus in San Francisco. You can also download this video from the Internet Archive.
This is a guest post by Jim Peters, Director-at-Large of the Lincoln Highway Association and coordinator of the Centennial Eastern Tour.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Lincoln Highway in 2013, the Lincoln Highway Association is planning tours from both coasts along the early alignments of the Lincoln Highway. Many miles of the old roadway have not been swallowed up by the Interstates and still survive, running on two lanes in proximity to U.S. Routes 1, 30, 40 and 50, so the tours will provide a re-enactment of a trip across the U.S. in the 1940s and 50s.
The two tours will start on Saturday, June 22 from New York and San Francisco, and will meet in Kearney, Nebraska on Sunday, June 30. The Centennial Celebration from July 1 to July 4 will include a car show, the Association’s annual conference, and local Independence Day celebrations. There will also be a re-creation of a tourist camp; participants with pre-1932 cars are invited to set up camp. If there is significant interest, the tours will continue to the East and West Coasts starting on July 5.
The tentative itineraries are below.
We also plan to allow participants to join and drop out of the tour at any point, with prior notification and registration.
Also, you can watch this blog or follow us on Facebook and Twitter as we post more information on the tours as it becomes available.
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The Lincoln Highway Traveling Exhibit, put on by the Illinois Lincoln Highway Coalition, is in Genoa through March.