Jefferson

JEFFERSON

Pop. 3,416 Alt. 1,052

Control, Lincoln Monument at Court House.

Marshalltown
78.3

Carroll
28.1

Two hotels, garages. Local speed limit, 15 miles per hour, enforced. Three banks, 2 railroads, express company, 2 telephone companies, 2 newspapers, new courthouse, one of the finest in Iowa, recently completed. Statue of Lincoln on court House grounds, facing Lincoln Highway. Commercial Club.

Log Cabin Tourist Camp (25 cents charge) in western outskirts of the city, on Lincoln Highway.

Attention is directed to the Head Memorial Bridge, the second memorial of this character to be built. Greene County is said to be the see corn county of the world

Concrete

L.H. Local Consul, P.L. Cockerill.

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

West of Jefferson
The Eureka Bridge crosses the Raccoon River a mild-and-a-half west of Jefferson. It was "built in 1913 after a flimsy steel pony truss bridge was damaged by spring floods and ice. The five-arch spandrel fill concrete structure was one of the first designed by the Iowa State Highway Commission. It was built by the Marsh Engineering Co. of Des Moines." (Greg Franzwa, The Lincoln Highway: Iowa, 1995). The bridge was widened several years ago.

West of Jefferson.
After crossing the Eureka Bridge, cars climb out of the valley and make a gradual turn to the west. However, the original Lincoln Highway made a hard right earlier and came around this old abandoned motel (view is to the north) to rejoin old U.S. Highway 30. The motel and 1913 road are on the land of Bill and Doris McGregor.

"There will be hundreds of thousands of tourists over this highway every year. The hotels like ours here will be taxed to the limit to feed the people that will visit the city, and garages will be kept busy. The farming communities through which the highway passes will be the best advertised on earth and the lands will be the most valuable. Other counties near this line will build to connect with it, of course, and the Lincoln Highway will be like one of the best trunk lines of the railway is now, so far as the automobile public is concerned."

"The Lincoln Highway through Greene County will have $20,000 spent upon it during the present year. It is estimated that this sum will build a grade twenty-six feet wide and meet the requirements of the county engineer and the state highway commission clear across Greene County. It will be a real permanent road grade, of the railroad type, with proper drainage - a foundation for a hard-surfaced road for all time to come. The only hill of any consequence in the county will be that just west of the Coon River, heretofore known as Danger Hill."

GREENE COUNTY

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