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by Russell "ypsi-slim" Rein
Leaves are falling, and winter's coming. If I can just hang in there till March - when it will start to get warmer. I think I need to start a Dixie Highway Association and move South. In the meantime here's your Lincoln Highway E-newsletter.
An LHA trivia contest asks where is the Easternmost existing Lincoln Highway concrete marker? I found these two listings from a 2003 Princeton on-line chat page....
2/5/03 - "Missing Marker"
To whom this may concern:I am not sure if people are aware but a piece of American and New Jersey history has gone missing. A Lincoln Highway Marker, placed in 1928, is no longer present. Conceived by Carl Fisher in 1912 and completed in 1915, the Lincoln Highway was the country's first transcontinental highway. The route began in NY and ended in CA, passing along today's Route 27. It's demise came with the creation of the US Highway System by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1925. To commemorate this Highway Boy Scouts throughout the country placed concrete markers every mile along the original route of the Lincoln Highway. [The markers were not placed every mile, and marked the final routing - ypsi-slim]. One such marker was located by 852 Princeton-Kingston Rd., approximately 75 feet south of Shady Brook Lane. I first saw this marker in 1999 when I began traveling the New Jersey portion of this route. During the following three years as I studied and cataloged significant sites along the route I would always stop and admire this piece of history. Unfortunately on a return visit, 1/03/03, this marker no longer exists. I do not know the exact date nor the cause of its disappearance. I just know that a piece of history is no longer available for others to appreciate.
Regretfully,
Al Pfingst2/20/03
Dear Mr. Pfingsti,The marker is not missing - the Township has safely removed it, and has stored it under lock and key, to prepare the way for the construction of the new Harry's Brook Bridge. This was am agreement that we had with the State of NJ. We removed it once before a few years ago when work was being done in the vicinity of the marker, I have also notified the Lincoln Highway Assoc. of this fact, of which I am a member.
Christine Lewandoski
Princeton Township
I don't know if the marker has been re-erected. Anyone have any news on this?
Ohio Living & Travel Magazine has an article
on-line about the Lincoln Highway. It features
a rare photo of the 1928 Massillon Boy Scouts
marker crew and truck!:
http://www.ohiotraveler.com/april.htm
The June 1974 American Heritage Magazine
article on the Lincoln Highway is now available
on-line at:
http://xrl.us/ibsf
AP picked up the story on New Haven, IN's
plan to bisect an old alignment of the Lincoln
Highway, from the Chicago Tribune:
http://xrl.us/ibsc
Walk the Lincoln Highway in Iowa with the
Mississippi River Ramblers Volkssporting
Club:
http://xrl.us/ibsb
The Ames, IA Historical Society website
has a great collection of Lincoln Highway
images on-line at:
http://xrl.us/ibr3
You can also access these images through
an on-line 1926 plat map:
http://xrl.us/ibr5
Check out the Menlo Park in Edison, NJ
web page featuring the Edison Tower and
Laboratory Monuments on the Lincoln Hwy:
http://www.edisonnj.org/menlopark/
The Lincoln Highway Scenic Byway in
Green County, IA website has some
nice photos and a sideshow feature at:
http://www.freewebs.com/30byway/scranton.htm
Welcome to the Unofficial Page of Clarence,
IA's Lincoln Highway Days:
http://xrl.us/ibrz
Utah History To Go - From the Salt Lake City
Tribune, 12/05/93,
The Long And Winding
Road, The Lincoln Highway: Utah Played
A Key Role In Taming West For Cars, by
Hal Schindler:
http://xrl.us/ibry
Iowa Public Television's Iowa Pathway's
website has an Artifacts section featuring
old photographs of early Autoing from the
Iowa Dept. of Transportation, including
construction of the Lincoln Highway Eureka
Bridge, east of Jefferson, IA:
http://www.iptv.org/IowaPathways/artifacts.cfm
Jersey City Past & Present has a page on
the Abraham Lincoln Association of Jersey
City featuring the Lincoln Highway:
http://xrl.us/ibq7
.....and another on the Pulaski Skyway:
http://xrl.us/ibq8
For more Pulaski Skyway history see:
http://www.nycroads.com/crossings/pulaski/
The Voice of America had a short bit on
America's Highway System last month,
featuring the Lincoln Highway. Read the
transcript here at:
http://xrl.us/ibq4
Hear the broadcast:
http://xrl.us/ibq5
Travel & Leisure's Jan 2004 article on
the Lincoln Highway is now on-line:
http://xrl.us/ibqy
A short article about the Lincoln Highway
markers in Davis, CA:
http://xrl.us/ibqx
Lincoln Highway Music:
Chicago folk musician Chris T's song -
Lincoln Highway from his 2003 Lone
Pine Tree album:
http://www.music05.com/song.php?id=21
Click the link below to play the song:
http://www.lonepinetree.com/files/1/lincolnHwy.m3u
Iowa Country Singer Songwriter Shadric
Smith's Rollin' Down That Lincoln Highway:
http://www.shadric.com/Lincoln%20Highway.htm
Click the link below to play the song:
http://xrl.us/ibsh
C. W. McCall's song Old Thirty from his Wolf
Creek Pass Album:
http://xrl.us/ibyk
Utah's Lincoln Highway, a bluegrass group:
http://www.lincolnhighwaymusic.com/home.php
Central PA's Lincoln Highway country band:
http://www.lincolnhwy.com/
http://xrl.us/ibyk
From the "Linc" Across Nebraska, newsletter of the Nebraska LHA, October 2005:
Lincoln Highway Scenic Byway
The most exciting thing that is happening in Nebraska right now if the new Lincoln Highway Scenic Byway. A committee of Chamber of Commerce, Convention & Visitors Bureau and Nebraska Tourism people headed by Lincoln Highway member Anne Anderson of the Gothenburg Chamber of Commerce is working to achieve Scenic Byway status for the entire Lincoln Highway across Nebraska. In 1999, Anne had gotten the Lincoln Highway from Overton to Sutherland designated the Platte River Scenic Trails Byway.
Check out the current Byway at: http://www.visitnebraska.org/byways/lincoln.htm
The City of Aurora, IL website has a section
on the reconstruction of the Lincoln Highway
Shelter originally constructed as part of an
auto camp by the Aurora Automobile Club:
http://xrl.us/ibp8
and a section on the Lincoln Highway including
an ad from the Burdick Enamel Sign Company:
http://xrl.us/ibqc
Photographer Charles Peifer's web page features
the Abraham Lincoln and Henry Joy Monuments,
moved from the Lincoln Highway to I-80 in
Wyoming:
http://xrl.us/ibqg
A 1961 article about that Abraham Lincoln
Monument on the Lincoln Highway is now
on-line at:
http://xrl.us/ibr7
"......This bronze head of Lincoln is the largest one
in the world and is twelve and one-half feet high. It
weighs three and one-half tons and reposes on the
top of a column of granite which rises into the air
thirty feet."
Motor Ioway's Lincoln Highway Tour from
Central Iowa's Times-Republican On-line:
http://xrl.us/h75a
Exhibits dot old Lincoln Highway, the LH
Heritage Corridor in PA, from
PittsburghLive.com:
http://xrl.us/h75b
Dixie Highway was first "interstate" for
South Florida, from the Boca Raton News:
http://xrl.us/h75c
More about Irwin, PA's urban renewal and
the Lincoln Highway from PittsburghLive.com:
http://xrl.us/h75k and:
http://xrl.us/ibpt
Lot's of activities on the old Donner Pass -
old US 40 and the Lincoln Highway, from
SacBee.com:
http://xrl.us/h75m
The airplane-shaped gas station in Knoxville,
TN on the Dixie Highway gets a grant for
preservation (check out the link after the
article for a pic), from the Southern Standard:
http://xrl.us/h75q
Old mill offers unparalleled look into pioneer
past, Tooele, UT, from the Tooele Transcript
Bulletin On-line (pronounced Toowilla):
http://xrl.us/h75t
Check out Tooele County's Guide to Historic
attractions:
http://www.co.tooele.ut.us/ht00_index.html
An interesting story on the Victory Highway
monument in downtown Truckee:
http://xrl.us/ibpv
And check out the Truckee-Donner Historical
Society at:
http://truckeehistory.tripod.com/
The Osher Map Library, University of Southern
Maine has a very nice on-line road map exhibit -
Road Maps, The American Way:
http://www.usm.maine.edu/maps/exhibit9/adventure.html
From the Casper, WY Star Tribune - A Look Back in Time - 75 Years Ago:
Lincoln Highway -- A pass between Cheyenne and Laramie known as the summit was also declared finished in October 1930. With an elevation above 8,000 feet, it was the highest point along the transcontinental roadway.
In Wyoming, significant stretches of the road were paved or at least graded gravel. The portion of the roadway 12 miles east of Rock Springs at Dry Lake, which flooded in August, was improved with a 76-foot bridge, raised grade and resurfacing.
More good news for the Lincoln Highway in Indiana - From the South Bend Tribune:
Hemminger closer to reality, InDOT to
award bid for renovation in November
By ADAM JACKSON, Tribune Staff Writer
PLYMOUTH -- Decades ago, the Hemminger House served as a place of refuge and rest for weary travelers on the Lincoln Highway. And soon, it could serve the same role again -- for endangered women and their children.
Dean Byers is with Turning Point Housing, a non-profit corporation formed to promote low-cost housing in the Marshall County area. He said that years of planning to turn the historic structure into a women's shelter are finally poised to take off, with the Indiana Department of Transportation slated to accept a bid for the renovation of the building's exterior in November."This has been in the works for years," he said. "Now, we are really starting to see things coming together."
Community surveys convinced project organizers of the need for such a shelter, and a big break came in 2002, when the Indiana Department of Transportation awarded Turning Point a $350,000 grant to be used toward the renovation of the historic home, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
A call went out in the community for funds to provide the required 20 percent match needed to take advantage of the grant, and supporters responded with a pouring forth of monetary support. But roadblocks to the progress of the project kept cropping up, including a requirement that tenants of the apartments that had been located in the building had to be compensated for relocating.
But Byers said that is all now in the past, and the future is looking bright for the Hemminger House. While Turning Point is still seeking more donations to assist with interior renovations at the home, the hope is that construction could begin this winter, with the shelter opening next year.
The job, however, will be a big one. "There are a lot of additional guidelines because the house is a registered historic property," Byers said. "For example, we will have to remove the entire tile roof, replace the sub-roof, and put it all back together." But the work is worth it, considering that the end result will be a friendly port in the storm for women in need and their children. "The closest shelters like this are in South Bend and Warsaw," Byers said. "There is a need for this in our community."
Ebay Auctions
Anyone ever heard the Mishawaka Blues?
This 78 rpm record by the Cotton Pickers surfaced recently:
http://xrl.us/htru
A real photo postcard of a winter scene near Donner Summit of the Cisco Grove Store brought $48.75:
http://xrl.us/ibyp
A scarce real photo postcard view of the 1st Annual Lincoln Highway Auto Parade in Goshen, IN closed after 28 bids at $202.50:
http://xrl.us/ibyq
A flattened used matchbook cover for the Capitol Club bar and casino in Ely, NV brought $34.00:
http://xrl.us/ibyr
A real photo postcard of the Bud Myers Gas Station in Breezewood, PA brought $66.86:
http://xrl.us/ibys
A bi-fold color printed postcard from 1908 of the Arizona Club in Las Vegas brought $361:
http://xrl.us/ibyt
A real photo postcard of the ever popular Coffee Pot restaurant in Bedford, PA with a damaged corner brought $71.50:
http://xrl.us/ibyu
A nice real photo postcard of the Malvern Inn, Malvern, PA finished at $42.99:
http://xrl.us/ibyv
A souvenir thermometer from the Grandview Ship Hotel on the LH in PA brought $56:
http://xrl.us/ibyw
A very nice curved porcelain "straight thru" Lincoln Highway sign met its reserve after 24 bids at $3,050:
http://xrl.us/ibyy
An unusual Pictorial Road Log road map of US 66 featuring many road scenes finished at $102.50:
http://xrl.us/iby3
[I am very interested in this format type map if anyone has any additional information to share.]
A scenic view of the Galena Ave, Bridge in Dixon, IL closed at $75.00 after a two bidder battle:
http://xrl.us/iby4
A brochure about Cannon Ball Baker's transcontinental run in a Crosley Covered Wagon, 1941 closed at $114:
http://xrl.us/iby5
A 1927 Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway Map Guide brought $53.55:
http://xrl.us/iby6
A 1913 Lincoln Highway Assoc. map of the Lincoln Highway brought $58.99:
http://xrl.us/iby9
A quart glass milk bottle from the Lincoln Highway Dairy, Delphos, OH finished today at $63.01:
http://xrl.us/ib2e
That it for now,
ypsi-slim
Russell S. Rein in Ypsilanti, MI