The Clarksville Region Historical Society is holding its sixth annual Clarksville Day this Saturday, May 5, in Clarksville, a ghost town along the Lincoln Highway near El Dorado Hills, California. The Lincoln Highway Association will have an exhibit at the event.
Spring 2012 California Chapter Meeting
Saturday, April 7, 2012
12:00 noon
Vince’s Ristorante
840 Harbor Boulevard
West Sacramento, CA 95691
(916) 371-6395
There will be a tour of Lincoln Highway auto courts along West Capitol Avenue, West Sacramento Historical Society, 1925 Sacramento Northern railroad underpass, Tower Court with a Lincoln Highway concrete marker, and Tule Jake Road.
This month’s newsletter from the El Cerrito (Calif.) Historical Society has a photo of San Pablo Avenue before it was the Lincoln Highway and covers the effort to get Lincoln Highway signs posted through the city.
Singer/songwriter Cece Otto writes about Al Jolson’s 1928 hit single, “Golden Gate,” including a music video (also embedded below). Listen carefully and you’ll hear a couple of references to your favorite coast-to-coast highway.
Stunning public murals dot the cityscape in the Midtown and Downtown neighborhoods of Sacramento. One of the murals is on the Masonic Temple building near the Lincoln Highway.
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.
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.
Paul Harrar writes about the collection of historic Lincoln Highway photos at the University of Michigan, in particular the highway around Donner Summit.
The city of Dublin, California is planning to install four Lincoln Highway signs along Dublin Boulevard, which was the Lincoln Highway’s alignment through the city. The cost of buying and installing the signs will be covered by the Dublin Historical Preservation Association.
The city of Folsom, California has dedicated the 1893 Folsom Historic Truss Bridge after Donald Alden, who spearheaded efforts to have the bridge returned to the city after it sat in Siskiyou County from 1931 to 2000. The bridge carried Lincoln Highway traffic until it was bypassed by the adjacent Rainbow Bridge in 1917.