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Lincoln Highway 🛣️ Historical Markers
Once the Nation's premier highway, it helped spur the development of enduring highways around the country.
By Mike Wintermantel, August 5, 2012
The Beginning of the Lincoln Highway Marker
GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| Near Pennsylvania Avenue (Old Route 30) at Main Street. |
| | The Lincoln Highway was the first coast-to-coast highway built in 1913. A group of visionary businessmen from the automotive industry, led by Henry B. Joy and Carl Fisher, formed the Lincoln Highway Association.
The Association successfully . . . — — Map (db m58075) HM |
| | A residence and farm, a stagecoach stop, a tavern, an office building and a museum!
In 1812, Scotch-Irish immigrant Alexander Johnston (who lived to be almost 100 yrs.) began erecting this landmark structure. The stone for the building and . . . — — Map (db m99062) HM |
| On Main Street near Market Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | This cement marker is one of 3,000 markers that were erected along the Lincoln Highway from New York City to San Francisco, approximately one per mile.
On September 1, 1928, cement posts with bronze medallions bearing President Lincoln's profile . . . — — Map (db m49264) HM |
| On West Main Street at South Fairfield Street, on the left when traveling west on West Main Street. |
| | In 1895, people from Pittsburgh could find refuge from the hustle and bustle of the city in Ligonier. At this time, Mr. Wiliam J. Potts, Ligonier's first Mayor, built a Victorian residence on this site for his wife Jessamine. It was the first home . . . — — Map (db m49265) HM |
| | Pleasure driving along the Lincoln Highway has long been a popular pastime. Motorists sought and continue to seek scenic beauty and amusements, such as Idlewild Park.
For most of its history, the Lincoln Highway was lined with attractions, . . . — — Map (db m76912) HM |
| On Main Street at Walnut Street, on the left when traveling west on Main Street. |
| | The rise and fall of the railroad corresponded to the continuing increase of roads, like the Lincoln Highway. Railroads were needed for transportation because roads were virtually impassable. But once new paving techniques made road surfaces . . . — — Map (db m49218) HM |
| On Main Street near Fairfield Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | As the Lincoln Highway prospered, many towns saw the introduction of automobile dealerships onto Main Street. In 1920, A.J. McColly purchased this site, tore down two frame houses, along with a blacksmith shop, and erected this building for his . . . — — Map (db m49266) HM |
| On Interstate 80 at milepost 332, in the median. |
| | This small pine tree that seems to be growing out of solid rock has fascinated travelers since the first train rolled past on the Union Pacific Railroad. It is said that the builders of the original railroad diverted the tracks slightly to pass by . . . — — Map (db m62159) HM |
| Near Interstate 80 at Happy Jack Road (Wyoming Highway 210), on the right when traveling west. |
| | "That there should be a Lincoln Highway across this country is the most important thing"
In memory of Henry B. Joy
The first president of the Lincoln Highway Association
Who saw realized the dream of a continuous improved highway from the . . . — — Map (db m84887) HM |
| Near Interstate 80 at Wyoming Highway 210. |
| | This monument commemorates the Lincoln Highway, America's first transcontinental automobile road, and Henry Bourne Joy, the first president of the Lincoln Highway Association (1913). Joy, also president of the Packard Motor Car Company, is sometimes . . . — — Map (db m47145) HM |
| On County Route 347 near Interstate 80, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Officially abandoned in 1886, the fort came under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior in 1887. In 1892 and 1893 most of the buildings were sold a public auction. In 1897 the land, opened to homesteading, was patented by the Union . . . — — Map (db m89913) HM |
| On County Route 347 near Interstate 80, on the right when traveling west. |
| | plus other lines of transportation and communication - train, telegraph and telephone - bisected America while linking its east and west coasts during one of our nation's most remarkable eras of development. Those lifelines also sustained the . . . — — Map (db m89924) HM |
| On West Linclonway near Carey Avenue, on the right when traveling west. |
| | The Lincoln Highway was America's first transcontinental highway, conceived in 1912 specifically with the automobile in mind. Although parts of the Lincoln Highway were first used in 1908 for the famous New York to Paris automobile "Great Race", it . . . — — Map (db m95580) HM |
| Near Interstate 80 at milepost 184, on the right when traveling east. |
| | This was the original location of the Henry B. Joy Lincoln Highway Monument placed in 1938 following Joy's death. Henry Bourne Joy was president of the Packard Motor Car Company and the first president of the Lincoln Highway Association. The Lincoln . . . — — Map (db m67960) HM |
| On Bear River Drive 0.4 miles east of Wyoming Highway 89, on the left when traveling east. |
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The Lincoln Highway was established in 1913 as the nation's first coast-to-coast automobile route. It consisted of existing roads that were marked with the distinctive Lincoln Highway logo. Perhaps the most famous means of identification was . . . — — Map (db m67739) HM |
| On Business U.S. 80 near Main Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | In 1928, the Boy Scouts erected 2,400 of these monuments to commemorate the first Coast to Coast Highway from New York to San Francisco.
We dedicate this monument to the memory of Mr. Albino Fillin of Fort Bridger who though to save it for . . . — — Map (db m90689) HM |
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