Saturday, April 10, 2010
12:00 noon
Ciro’s Pizza Cafe
241 Blue Ravine Rd.
Folsom, CA 95630
[Google Map]

Have you ever heard of the Chinese Diggings?
by Norm Root

The Chinese Diggings are a historical destination right beside the Lincoln Highway, located at the northwest corner of Folsom Boulevard and U.S. Highway 50, in southwest Folsom. The diggings are a group of narrow ditches about 18 inches wide and up to 30 feet deep, laid out in a herringbone format, which form a unique sluice box system for washing gold. The system was owned by the Natomas Gold Mining Company and worked by Chinese laborers.

The California Chapter of the Lincoln Highway Association was notified recently by the city of Folsom that the owners of the property have applied to build a four-story hotel on the property. Lloyd Johnson will lead us on a tour of the diggings following the chapter meeting. This part of the Lincoln Highway, Folsom Boulevard, is not on any of our normal tours, so we seldom get to see it.

During the meeting, Kell Brigan will tell about her ongoing research study of Routier Station, which is in this same area. Anyone who has photographs of Folsom Boulevard is encouraged to bring them to the meeting to share.

We will meet for lunch at Ciro’s Pizza Cafe, at 241 Blue Bird Ravine in Folsom, Saturday April 10 at noon. From the Folsom Blvd off-ramp from U.S. 50, head north on Folsom Boulevard. Turn right (east) onto Blue Ravine Road. Ciro’s is on the southwest corner of Blue Ravine and Prairie City Road. Turn right into the driveway off of Blue Ravine at the beginning of the right turn lane onto Prairie City Road. You can eat for $7.37 and up to more than $20. (Unfortunately, the advertised $6.99 buffet lunch is not available on Saturdays.)

The Indiana chapter of the Lincoln Highway Association is holding its spring events in Warsaw and Winona Lake Saturday, April 17, 2010.

10:00 am
Warsaw: Lincoln Highway Kiosk Dedication
The public is invited!
W Old Road 30 at 350 W

Join the Indiana Lincoln Highway Association and the Kosciusko County Historical Society at the Chinworth Bridge Trailhead for a dedication program and celebration of Warsaw’s Lincoln Highway heritage!

12:30 pm
Winona Lake: Lunch at the Boat House Restaurant and Geocaching
Reservations required

Enjoy this lovely location along the shore of Winona Lake and get geocache locations at closing of this event. The annual gathering of the Indiana Lincoln Highway Association will feature a kick-off of a high-tech Geocaching Adventure along the Indiana Lincoln Highway, updates on the Scenic Byway Application with the State of Indiana, and an annual auction-fundraiser. Enjoy Lunch on the shores of Winona Lake!

12:30 p.m. Browse displays and auction items
1:00 p.m. Lunch with guest speaker

Phil Worrall, Executive Director, Indiana Geographic Information Council, will kick off the INLHA Geocaching Project and entertain us with this new high tech adventure for Indiana’s Lincoln Highway! This project is funded through the Indiana Humanities Council and Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana. Attendees will be given locations of caches at the end of this event – be the first to find a cache!

Updates on Indiana LH Byway application, special projects, and a live auction fundraiser!

Cost: $22.00 (includes entrée ordered from group lunch menu, beverage, tax, gratuity, and registration fee)

For reservations, contact Joyce Chambers at (574) 272-5374 by April 10.

On Jan. 20, the Wheels Through Time American Transportation Museum in Maggie Valley [North Carolina], will be making history once again — this time, participating in the 2009 Presidential Inauguration Day Parade. During the historic event, the museum will bring a small fleet of WWI era motorcycles to Washington to participate in a procession celebrating the 90th Anniversary of the transcontinental Army motor convoy on the Lincoln Highway in 1919.

• Local museum to participate in Presidential Inauguration Day Parade, Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times, January 5, 2009

California Lincoln Highway Association
Quarterly Chapter Meeting
Saturday, January 3, 2009 at Noon

Banta Inn
22563 S 7th St
Banta, CA 95376

Clayton Mehring will lead the program, which will be about Lincoln Highway geocaching. What is geocaching? How does it work? You’ll get a chance to try it out. If you have a handheld GPS unit, bring it along! This program is in keeping with our efforts to acquaint a wider range of people with the Lincoln Highway.

Agenda

1. Recording Secretary for the day
2. Approve minutes of October 4
3. Officers’ reports
4. State director’s report
5. Project reports
6. Announcements
   
   • Heritage Preservation League of Folsom is presenting us an award on Thursday, Jan 8 at 5:00pm at the Folsom Museum. All are invited.
7. Program: Lincoln Highway Geocaching by Clayton Mehring

Our next meeting will be on Saturday, March 21 at the Folsom Museum in Folsom, where we will donate one of our real marker posts to the museum.

Join the Osnaburg Historical Society on Monday, Nov. 10, to hear Jim Cassler from the Ohio Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor talk about the historic highway that travels through East Canton and Osnaburg Township.

• Osnaburg Historical Society invites public to presentation by Lincoln Highway expert, The Press News (Minerva, OH), October 29, 2008

Interested adventure buffs can travel the highway themselves with two upcoming events within about a 45-minute drive from Iowa City.

•  A Chance to Tour the Lincoln Highway, Iowa City Press-Citizen, October 28, 2008

Rick Sebak’s latest PBS documentary, “A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway” will debut nationally Oct. 29.

Sebak, of WQED-TV, will host a VIP premiere Oct. 18 at the Sewickley Car Store, which sits along the original route of the Lincoln Highway, the nation’s first coast-to-coast highway.

• Scott Tady column: Slice of Bacon, Beaver County Times (Beaver, PA), October 12, 2008

Antique car owners and car clubs are invited to join the celebration of the original route of the Lincoln Highway through New Carlisle on Saturday, Oct. 11.

• Lincoln Highway celebration Saturday, The News-Dispatch (Michigan City, IN), October 9, 2008

The Goshen Theater attracted major vaudeville acts on their way from New York to Chicago along the Lincoln Highway.

• Downtown Goshen, Inc. to present Oct. 14 Afternoon Sabbatical about changes to the city, Goshen College, October 7, 2008

From Norman Root, president of the California Chapter of the Lincoln Highway Association:

Quarterly Chapter Meeting
Saturday, October 4, 2008
12:00 noon

Baker’s Square Restaurant
255 2nd St (at B St)
Davis, CA 95616
(530) 756-4190

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Saturdays at noon is a very busy time for them. They will reserve a table for 20 in the back room. However, others may have to share the other tables in that room. There is plenty of parking all around the building.

They serve breakfast all day with a cost of about $7. Sandwiches run from $8 to $10.

The historic significance of the place is that we have been telling folks for years that this corner is where Lincoln Highway marker post #2369 once stood. I’m not so sure about that now, but, for sure, this is on the Lincoln Highway.

Joanne Pelz is the program, which will be about Lincoln Highway Volkswalks.  She has a mini Lincoln Highway Volkswalk planned for us beginning at 2nd and B.  This program is in keeping with our effort to acquaint a wider range of people with the Lincoln Highway.