CLINTON COUNTY

DeWitt

DEWITT	Pop. 1,875. Alt. 711	Control, Intersection Lincoln Way and Main St.
Clinton 18.7	Cedar Rapids 61.3	Two hotels, 5 garages. Local speed limit, 12 miles per hour, not enforced. One railroad crossing at grade, not protected. Three banks, C&NW, CM&St.P. Railroads, express company, telephone company, 1 newspaper. Crystal Lake 2¹/₂ miles west, good fishing, and camp site. Commercial Club.
Concrete		L.H. Local Consul, L.N. Williams, First National Bank

- A Complete Official Road Guide of The LINCOLN HIGHWAY Fifth Edition (1924)

East of DeWitt.
A nice stretch of gentle curves and good pavement on top of the old Lincoln Highway roadbed.

East of DeWitt.
Why stop with just one photo?

DeWitt.
The classic Lincoln Highway cottage gas station with an art-deco peaked roof. Travelers on the Lincoln have to do serious "rubber-neckin'" to take in all the 1920s and 30s architecture.

"The Road Guides touted Crystal Lake, a 'good fishing and camp site' some 2.5 miles southwest of town. Motorists would have had to turn south on Sixth Street, crossed the C&NW tracks at the south edge of town, and turned west for about two miles to reach the site."

- Greg Franzwa, The Lincoln Highway: Iowa, The Patrice Press, 1995.