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.
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.
Two organizations will join forces to showcase Ohio’s portion of America’s first coast-to-coast road next June. The Ohio chapters of the national Lincoln Highway Association and the official Ohio Lincoln Highway Historic Byway are planning to bring over 200 visitors to the McKinley Grand Hotel in Canton, Ohio for a week of lectures, seminars, day-long road trips, banquets and other evening activities, all draped with the theme of Pathways & Presidents and celebrating the Lincoln Highway.
The annual conference is held each year somewhere along the corridor from New York to San Francisco. This last summer, Lake Tahoe dazzled attendees with their local culture and history, and two years ago Dixon, Illinois, birthplace of Ronald Reagan, hosted the week-long conference.
The conference will begin Monday, June 18, providing something for everybody. Plans are for a special welcome reception open to anyone wishing to have answers about the historic road, and there will be a special Marmon automobile exhibit one day of the conference. Attendees are from all over the United States and the world, and usually leave with much more knowledge of the early automobile era and this famous highway, and about this area of the country.
According to conference organizer Jim Cassler, there will be additional tours focusing on Ohio’s Amish Country, a train trip on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad and a trip to the National Packard Museum in Warren, Ohio honoring Lincoln Highway co-founder, Henry Joy, who was also president of Packard Motors. Presidential activities will include Canton’s First Ladies National Historic Site, while a trip to Marion will highlight Warren Harding’s involvement in the early highway.
Anyone interested in learning more may visit www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org or www.historicbyway.com for general history of the highway. You may follow breaking information on Facebook as well. Registration information will be available there at a later date.
Contact: Mike Hocker, Executive Director
Ohio Lincoln Highway Historic Byway
www.historicbyway.com
Voice: (419) 468-6773
Fax: (419) 468-5139
email: info@historicbyway.com
The gravesite of Robert Nesbitt, founder of the village of Convoy, Ohio, has been recognized as an Ohio Historical Marker. The back of the marker commemorates the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway in Ohio.
Fogeyisms, a blog by Terry Wolf of Ohio, has blogged about some of his travels along the Lincoln Highway. Start with the link below, and then click on “Newer Post†at the bottom of the post to view his articles.
Balyeat’s Coffee Shop, on the Lincoln Highway in Van Wert, Ohio, has been serving up authentic American cuisine since 1922.
Jim Cassler talks about the Lincoln Highway Trading Post, the online store for Lincoln Highway merchandise, and next year’s LHA convention in Canton, Ohio.
The Ohio chapter of the Lincoln Highway Association and the Ohio Lincoln Highway Historic Byway will be hosting the 2012 Lincoln Highway Association conference in Canton, Ohio, for a week beginning Monday, June 18.
Bob Carter of the Mansfield News Journal looks back at some of the first cars driven in the Lincoln Highway town of Mansfield, Ohio.