Lincoln Highway Control Station & Fallout Shelter
On the Hotel Marsh on East Main Street (the old US 30) in Van Wert, Ohio. On our way to Michigan, we stopped in Van Wert to look around as I'd never been through there before. Since I have taken stretches of Route 66, I've been interested in the Lincoln Highway, but wasn't thinking about it as we walked around. I noticed a sign in the sidewalk that said "Lincoln Highway" and then saw these two signs on the hotel. Parts of the Lincoln Highway are closer to me than any part of 66 so, I need to explore more of it, perhaps into Pennsylvania as I think it would be the most interesting close to me.
From Wikipedia:
"The Lincoln Highway was one of the earliest transcontinental highways for automobiles across the United States of America.[1] Conceived in 1912 by Indiana entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, and formally dedicated October 31, 1913, the Lincoln Highway ran coast-to-coast from Times Square in New York City west to Lincoln Park in San Francisco, originally through 13 states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and California. In 1915, the "Colorado Loop" was removed, and in 1928, a realignment relocated the Lincoln Highway through the northern tip of West Virginia. Thus, there are a total of 14 states, 128 counties, and more than 700 cities, towns and villages through which the highway passed at some time in its history.
The first officially recorded length of the entire Lincoln Highway in 1913 was 3,389 miles (5,454 km).[a] Over the years, the road was improved and numerous realignments were made,[3] and by 1924 the highway had been shortened to 3,142 miles (5,057 km). Counting the original route and all of the subsequent realignments, there have been a grand total of 5,872 miles (9,450 km).[4]
The Lincoln Highway was gradually replaced with numbered designations after the establishment of the U.S. Numbered Highway System in 1926. Today, Interstate 80 serves as the primary highway from the New York City area to San Francisco."
Lincoln Highway Control Station & Fallout Shelter
On the Hotel Marsh on East Main Street (the old US 30) in Van Wert, Ohio. On our way to Michigan, we stopped in Van Wert to look around as I'd never been through there before. Since I have taken stretches of Route 66, I've been interested in the Lincoln Highway, but wasn't thinking about it as we walked around. I noticed a sign in the sidewalk that said "Lincoln Highway" and then saw these two signs on the hotel. Parts of the Lincoln Highway are closer to me than any part of 66 so, I need to explore more of it, perhaps into Pennsylvania as I think it would be the most interesting close to me.
From Wikipedia:
"The Lincoln Highway was one of the earliest transcontinental highways for automobiles across the United States of America.[1] Conceived in 1912 by Indiana entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, and formally dedicated October 31, 1913, the Lincoln Highway ran coast-to-coast from Times Square in New York City west to Lincoln Park in San Francisco, originally through 13 states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and California. In 1915, the "Colorado Loop" was removed, and in 1928, a realignment relocated the Lincoln Highway through the northern tip of West Virginia. Thus, there are a total of 14 states, 128 counties, and more than 700 cities, towns and villages through which the highway passed at some time in its history.
The first officially recorded length of the entire Lincoln Highway in 1913 was 3,389 miles (5,454 km).[a] Over the years, the road was improved and numerous realignments were made,[3] and by 1924 the highway had been shortened to 3,142 miles (5,057 km). Counting the original route and all of the subsequent realignments, there have been a grand total of 5,872 miles (9,450 km).[4]
The Lincoln Highway was gradually replaced with numbered designations after the establishment of the U.S. Numbered Highway System in 1926. Today, Interstate 80 serves as the primary highway from the New York City area to San Francisco."