Logan

LOGAN	Pop. 1,500 Alt. 928	Control, Office of Almor Stern on L.H.
Carroll 64.0	Omaha 34.7	One hotel, garages. Three turns in town. One railroad crossing at grade, not protected. Two banks, C&NW, IC Railroads, 20 general business places, express company, telephone company, 2 newspapers. Commercial Club. Free tourists' camp.
Graded Dirt		L.H. Local Consul, Almor Stern

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

North of Logan.
It's easy to see where the gravel Lincoln Highway once ran through the center of the photo, and equally apparent how U.S. Highway 30 cut a wide swath through the middle of the Harrison County stairstep, converting a series of right-angle turns into a straight line.

North of Logan.
Decades of erosion - and a particularly wet spring - left this Lincoln Highway bridge and culvert high and dry. An adult can walk upright through the box section. The culvert and ornate wing-walled bridge were probably poured into a mold on site over several days, and no doubt shortly after the roadway was designated Lincoln Highway. Today a prefabricated culvert would be dropped into place all at once, but it wouldn't look much different from its grandpa here.

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Just outside Logan, the Harrison County stairstep finally comes to an abrupt end due to the intrusion of the Logan quarry - or should that be "extrusion"? In 1913 the Lincoln Highway proceeded straight ahead, about 100 feet higher than the open gravel pit just coming into view.

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Driving around to the other end of the quarry, the traveler finds this hearty old Lincoln Highway bridge. Straight ahead the road quickly unravels into a couple of ruts, and then disappears altogether just before the road reaches the Boyer River. It originally crossed the Boyer and entered Logan, though today there is no trace of the bridge. This one, however, is still rated at 18 tons, necessary to support the heavy quarry machinery.

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Logan's city park, complete with band shell. The photo is taken from the Lincoln Highway.

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A wonderful terra-cotta bank building on Seventh Street, the main drag in Logan. The Lincoln Highway passes it on the left.

"There was no shortage of excitement in town when it was learned that the Lincoln Highway would pass through Logan. This item came from the Council Bluffs Nonpareil dated Oct. 11, 1913: 'Much enthusiasm during meeting held here Tuesday evening, and much good was accomplished by the boosters. Attending were editors of Dunlap Reporter, Woodbine Twiner, were at the meeting, along with many other officials of Harrison County.' When the army truck convoy reached Logan in early August 1919, the men were treated to cigars and gallons of cold lemonade. The Logan newspaper reporter was enthralled with the one-man tank which was carried on a trailer. because of this interest, Dwight Eisenhower and Serano Brett, the two tank men with the entourage, demonstrated the vehicle."

HARRISON COUNTY

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