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| COUNCIL BLUFFS | Pop. 36,162 | Control, Post Office |
| Carroll 94.4 |
Omaha 4.3 |
County Seat, on the Missouri
River. Hotels, garages. Local speed limit 15 miles per hour, enforced.
$300,000 has been spent on the Lincoln Highway within the city limits. Bridge over
Missouri River, 10 cents per car, 5 cents per passenger. Eight trunk lines, Union
Pacific, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Chicago and Great Western, Illinois Central,
Chicago and North Western, Chicago Rock Island and Pacific, Chicago Milwaukee and Saint
Paul Wabash. Express company, telephone company, 2 telegraph and cable companies,
over 50 miles of paved streets. Fourteen parks comprising practically 1000
acres. State institution for the deaf. Lake Manawa a beautiful summer resort 9
miles south of the city. A Tourist Camp (in Fairmount Park, 30 acres), electric
lights, cooking range, shower baths, wash rack for cars, telephone, custodian in charge
night and day. Charge 50 cents per car per day. Here in 1846, the Mormons established a settlement called "Kanesville" which they soon abandoned for Salt Lake City, Utah. |
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L.H. Consul, Joe W. Smith, 414 Broadway | |
- A Complete Official Road Guide of The LINCOLN HIGHWAY Fifth Edition (1924)
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North Council Bluffs.
A narrow canal skirts the Lincoln Highway in the Kanesville section of north
Council Bluffs.
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Broadway Street.
The east-west viaduct a mile from the Missouri River and Nebraska was built on
top of the original Lincoln Highway, now Broadway. Visitors today can walk the
turn-of-the-century brick highway and even follow the iron streetcar rails (lower left).
"Tracing the trail of the Lincoln Highway from Dunlap to Council Bluffs, the Boy Scouts of Council Bluffs and the Waubonsie-Boyer area installed seventy-one concrete memorial guide posts and twenty steel enameled markers Saturday. The first post west of Council Bluffs was installed on the north side of Broadway at Sixteenth Street and the posts continued on both sides of the street to the Douglas street bridge. At the same time, Boy Scouts along the Lincoln Highway are similarly marking the highway in their areas [across the country]. The memorial posts, which have on the front a bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln with a red strip across the top and blue arrow on each side pointing skyward, were furnished by the Lincoln Highway Association."
- Gregory Franzwa, The Lincoln Highway: Iowa, The Patrice Press, 1995
All images Copyright © Paul W. Walker 1995, 1996, 2000,
2001.