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| LOVELAND | Pop. 100 | Control, Post Office. |
| Carroll 76.6 |
Omaha 22.1 |
Gas and oil can be obtained. Local speed limit 15 miles per hour, enforced. Express company, telephone. |
| Graded Dirt | L.H. Consul, J.S. Jones | |
- A Complete Official Road Guide of The LINCOLN HIGHWAY Fifth Edition (1924)
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Loveland.
The gravel road in the foreground forms a t-intersection with the Lincoln Highway
at extreme right. Who knows the significance of this building in Loveland - a
Lincoln Highway garage? With state highway 183 alongside Loveland on the west side,
the old Lincoln Highway borders the town on the east, as tight against the Loess Hills as
possible. Sometimes you'll find a garage sitting on the grade, or perhaps a
house. One family even has their volleyball court perched on the famous roadway.
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Loveland.
Facing the other direction, the highway continues on until history interrupted
its course. The barrier board at center blocks the highway as it runs under the
massive east-west I-680 embankment. The mostly inaccessible roadway continues on the
other side as a shelf road.
"The old road was at the base of the picturesque loess hills, for which this region of Iowa is famous. The highly erodable glacial deposits were blown here from the Missouri River Valley thousands of years ago. Only in China are loess hills as predominate as these."
- Gregory Franzwa, The Lincoln Highway: Iowa, The Patrice Press, 1995
All images Copyright © Paul W. Walker, 1995, 1996, 2000,
2001.