The route for a coast-to-coast bicycle race in 1896 eventually led to the routing of the Lincoln Highway, and later Interstate 80, through Salt Lake City.

• Living History: Big Bill’s bicycle set the course for the freeway, Salt Lake Tribune, January 5, 2009

The Jersey City Police Department held a minute of silence in honor of police officers Robert Nguyen and Shawn Carson, who died in 2005 when they drove off the Lincoln Highway Bridge when the center section was raised. The bridge was renamed after the officers in 2007.

• Cops to honor Carson, Nguyen, The Jersey Journal (Jersey City, N.J.), December 24, 2008

Students from Franklin County Career and Technology Center are building a replica 1920 Selden apple truck, the kind used frequently almost a century ago in agricultural Franklin County.

According to Janet Pollard of Franklin County Visitors’ Bureau, the 1.5 scale truck, when complete, will be displayed somewhere along U.S. 30 as part of the Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor’s Heritage Giants project.

• Apple truck a symbol of county life, Public Opinion (Chambersburg, Pa.), December 19, 2008

Town Talk reviews the Ship Inn, a restaurant along the Lincoln Highway in Exton, Pennsylvania that has been at the same location since 1796.

• The Historic Ship Inn: Doing Business For Over Two Hundred Years, Town Talk (Ridley, Pa.), December 16, 2008