The Lincoln Highway Association is taking nominations for sites to be added to our Preservation Opportunities list, which will be used to draw attention to their plight. This list will be announced at the National Conference in Dixon, Illinois in June 2010.
Nominations are due May 1, 2010.
I would like to know if the Illinois Chapter has regular meetings and if so, how can I find out when they are. My husband and I have gone to various towns in Illinois where the Highway runs through but can’t seem to find anyone else there from the organization so figure we must be missing something. thanks for your help.
Rose, take a look at the Illinois chapter’s web site: http://www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org/il/
Next week, we are taking a road trip to Chicago from Denver to take our daughter to college. Please tell us the advantages of taking the Lincoln Highway as opposed to I-80. We are hoping for a less boring, more historically and visually interesting trip. However a quick glance at maps shows the Lincoln Highway as paralleling much of 1-80 for the Denver-Chicago route. Thanks for your perspectives!
I have a question- my neighbors informed me that on October 27th 2012, here in York County, Pennsylvania, on Pigeon Hill Road, that the Dennis Hiner estate is having an auction and in that auction is an old, OLD early concrete mixer that was used to pave the earliest parts of the Lincoln Highway here in PA. I am wondering if anyone there would be interested in purchasing it. I am approaching your group about possibly purchasing and preserving it. I cant do it myself, but my neighbors told me about it since I am working on our barn with the intention of making part of it a local history museum. It is still in the early stages, and moves along in fits and starts. But I figured you have the connections to the interested parties that may chose to take part in rescuing this large item ( I myself haven’t seen it yet). My name is Annalisa Gojmerac, and feel free to pass this information along to anyone who wants to rescue this historic item, before it is sold, quite probably, for scrap. Thanks for your attention.