Missouri Valley

MISSOURI VALLEY	Pop. 3,985 Alt. 1001 feet	Control, Valley Hotel.
Carroll 72.3	Omaha 26.4	Two hotels, garages. Local speed limit 10-15 miles per hour, enforced. One railroad crossing at grade, protected. Three banks, 3 railroads, 75 general business places, express company, telephone company, 2 newspapers. Commercial Club. Campgrounds.
Graded Dirt, Concrete		L.H. Local Consul, R.D. McEvoy Short cut from here to Fremont, Neb., via Blair, saving 27 miles. Ferry across the Missouri River. Toll 75 cents car and passengers.

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

Between Logan and Missouri Valley.
The farmer who owns this land planted his barn on top of the old highway grade. The Lincoln Highway entered the picture from the lower left and can still be discerned as it ran up to the barn and out the other end. To smooth out the curve, new Iowa Highway 183 was poured, out of the frame on the right.

Eastside Missouri Valley.
(see image in Postcard Gallary image)
The Sunny Side Motel is one of the few remaining cabin courts on the Lincoln Highway in Iowa. It's quiet, quaint, and the price is always right.

Missouri Valley.
Even a shabby woodpile and broken windows can't keep the Art Deco-ness of this 1930s gas station from shining through. Someone REALLY ought to take better care of their investment. The things you could do with this building!

"The Lincoln turned south in Missouri Valley at the intersection of present state highway 183, in the heart of the business district, to go to Omaha. However, after the Blair Bridge was completed in the early 1930s, the Lincoln proceeded due west on the route of present U.S. 30 to bypass Omaha. Or at least that's the way people perceived it. But there was no Lincoln Highway in the 1930s - Congress shot it in the head in 1925 when all named interstate highways became numbers. it took decades, however, before people stopped calling it the Lincoln Highway"

HARRISON COUNTY

Missouri Valley