The Illinois Lincoln Highway Coalition recently unveiled its latest mural in Ashton, Illinois, celebrating the highway’s paving through the town in 1921.
A segment of Second Avenue SE in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which was also the Lincoln Highway, will be incorporated into a historic district celebrating its past as Auto Row. In return, the city will be allowed to demolish a 50-year old parking garage damaged in a 2008 flood, also deemed historic but widely considered an eyesore.
The decision to create the Second Avenue SE Automobile Row Historic District came more than five months after the last intact buildings from Second Avenue’s auto row days were demolished.
The Fort Morgan Times has a brief blurb on the Lincoln Highway in Colorado’s Weldon Valley.
Steve Muntz of Le Grand, Iowa regularly walks between his home and his job at Marshalltown Community College, 10½ miles away. His walk takes him along the Lincoln Highway.
The Mainstreet Business Journal of southwest Utah has an article introducing the Lincoln Highway.
The Lincoln Highway Traveling Exhibit, sponsored by the Illinois Lincoln Highway Coalition, is currently in the Chicago Heights Public Library until April 29. Afterwards, it will stay in Chicago Heights but move to City Hall.
An association to promote the Jefferson Highway, which ran from Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada to New Orleans, has re-formed. Lincoln Highway Association charter members Bob and Joyce Ausberger are also active in the Jefferson Highway Association. The Jefferson and the Lincoln Highways ran concurrently between Ames and Colo, Iowa.
Michael Bortell, the chairman of the Historic Preservation Commission of Plainfield, Illinois, is applying for a matching grant from the National Park Service to fund a study for a “Gateway Park” at the intersection of Illinois State Route 59 (old Route 66) and U.S. 30 (the Lincoln Highway).
Bil Paul, columnist for the Dixon Patch, writes about the impact of the Lincoln Highway and U.S. 40 on the town of Dixon, California, which lies between San Francisco and Sacramento.
Jeff Blair, the Indiana state director of the Lincoln Highway Association, will walk across Indiana along the 1913 route of the Lincoln Highway to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Association and the Lincoln Highway Association. The walk will take place from Thursday, April 14 to Wednesday, April 27.
For more information about the walk and how to pledge, go to Jeff’s web site, blairwalk.com.