Tickets for a tour of the Lincoln Highway through the Illinois communities of Plainfield, Oswego, and Aurora on Saturday, May 19 are now available.
- Lincoln Highway Guided Tour Set for May 19, Plainfield (Ill.) Patch, April 19, 2012
May 6: Lincoln Highway photography presentation in Latrobe, PA
The Lincoln Highway Experience in Latrobe, Pennsylvania will a host a presentation by Richard Stoner on his Lincoln Highway photographs, on Sunday, May 6 at 2 PM. Reservations are recommended.
- Lincoln Highway focus of photography program, Daily American (Somerset, Pa.), April 19, 2012
- Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor, which operates the Lincoln Highway Experience
Lincoln Highway kiosk in La Porte, IN to be dedicated on May 5
The Indiana Lincoln Highway Association invites the general public to a dedication of Indiana’s newest Lincoln Highway Byway interpretive kiosk on Saturday, May 5 at 9:00 a.m. Central Time (dedication ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m. Central Time) in La Porte, Indiana.
- La Porte Kiosk Dedication and 2012 Spring Annual Meeting, Indiana Lincoln Highway Association, April 5, 2012
Lincoln Highway mural to be installed in New Lenox, IL
The Illinois Lincoln Highway Coalition will install a Lincoln Highway mural in New Lenox, Illinois on the northwest corner of U.S. 30 and Cedar Road.
- Historical Mural Coming to New Lenox, Plus More Village Board News, Michael Sewall, New Lenox (Ill.) Patch, March 27, 2012
- Public art mural to grace side of New Lenox building, Barbara Dargis, TribLocal New Lenox (Ill.), March 28, 2012
Aspiring Eagle Scout to renovate Lincoln Highway gazebo
Bobby Tomaszewski, a Boy Scout from Geneva, Illinois, is looking to raise $1,000 to renovate the Lincoln Highway gazebo in downtown Geneva. He will become an Eagle Scout on completion of the project.
- Aspiring Geneva Eagle Scout looking to renovate downtown gazebo, Frank Vaisvilas, Geneva (Ill.) Republican, March 17, 2012
LHA California chapter meeting today
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.
El Cerrito, CA historical society on the Lincoln Highway
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.
- Sparks from the Anvil, El Cerrito Historical Society, re-published by the El Cerrito (Calif.) Patch, March 12, 2012
New Lincoln Highway mural in Sauk Village, IL
The latest in a series of murals sponsored by the Illinois Lincoln Highway Coalition has been installed in Sauk Village.
- Sauk Village erects historical mural, David P. Funk, The Times of Northwest Indiana (Munster, Ind.), March 1, 2012
- Sauk Village IL gets new Lincoln Highway mural, Brian Butko, Lincoln Highway News, March 2, 2012
- Sauk Village mural added to series along Lincoln Highway, Southtown Star (Tinley Park, Ill.), March 3, 2012
Fording the Lincoln Highway in 1924
The Henry Ford Museum has posted a short film from 1924 on Ford’s celebrating the production of its ten-millionth automobile by driving it across the country on the Lincoln Highway.
Thanks to Sarah Uthoff for the tip!
Developer appeals denial of Pure Oil gas station demolition in Geneva, IL
The owner of the Pure Oil gas station building in Geneva, Illinois is appealing a ruling by the city’s Historic Preservation Commission, which denied him permission to tear down the building to put in drive-through lanes for a bank. The city council meets to discuss the matter on March 26.
Opponents of the demolition have put up a petition online asking the mayor and city council to save the building.
- Appeal filed in Pure Oil station demolition case, Susan Sarkauskas, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Ill.), March 14, 2012
- Geneva preservation panel rejects plan to demolish old gas station, Linda Girardi, The Beacon-News (Aurora, Ill.), February 23, 2012
- To the Mayor and the City Council of Geneva, Illinois: Save the Historic Pure Oil Building, Save Pure Oil, hosted by Change.org