The Old Lincoln Highway Veterans Monument Park in Crescent, Iowa, built with the help of countless volunteers, is nearly done.
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.
The Indiana portion of the Lincoln Highway is now officially part of the Indiana Byway Program. The Indiana Lincoln Highway Association and a new Indiana Lincoln Highway Byway Council will develop a corridor management plan, including guidelines for road signage and the creation of tourism materials to promote the towns and businesses and events held along the route.
The Indiana Lincoln Highway Association is holding its fall meeting this Saturday, October 15, 10:30 a.m., at the old Carnegie Library in Goshen.
Lothson’s Karry-Out, which specializes in fried chicken, has been in business in DeKalb, Illinois since 1949. It has been at its current location along the Lincoln Highway since around 1957.
A replica of the Hammer Motel sign in Kearney, Nebraska, an icon along the Lincoln Highway, is now on display at the Great Platte River Road Archway.
Earl Swift, author of The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways, prominently mentions the Lincoln Highway in a BBC News video on the history of roads in the U.S., from trails to the Interstates.
Eric and Kass Mencher are currently working on a book of photographs along the Lincoln Highway, “the contemporary face of life along a historic road.” They are raising funds to help them complete the book. If you would like to support their effort, follow the first link below.
Norman Root, long-time member of the Lincoln Highway Association, president of the California chapter and past California state director, has passed away. He was also a retired bridge engineer for the California Department of Transportation. Norm will be sorely missed.
The Illinois Lincoln Highway Coalition’s latest mural installation, in the Illinois town of Oswego, pays tribute to the Boy Scouts and their installation of thousands of concrete markers along the Lincoln Highway in 1928.