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2012 Lincoln Highway Conference on Facebook

Lincoln Highway Association — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:44:34 +0000

Just a reminder that you can follow the 2012 Lincoln Highway National Conference on Facebook for up-to-date information.

Lincoln Highway Digital Image Collection

Lincoln Highway Association — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:07:08 +0000

Back in 1937, the original Lincoln Highway Association donated its archive to the University of Michigan. The archive is now held in the university’s Special Collections Library. In 2007, the library finished digitizing every photograph in the archive, over 3,000 of them, and placed them online. You can browse the collection and search over the captions of the photos.

Lincoln Highway Digital Image Collection, University of Michigan Special Collections Library

2012 National Lincoln Highway Conference in Canton, Ohio

Lincoln Highway Association — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:36:56 +0000

Two organizations will join forces to showcase Ohio’s portion of America’s first coast-to-coast road next June. The Ohio chapters of the national Lincoln Highway Association and the official Ohio Lincoln Highway Historic Byway are planning to bring over 200 visitors to the McKinley Grand Hotel in Canton, Ohio for a week of lectures, seminars, day-long road trips, banquets and other evening activities, all draped with the theme of Pathways & Presidents and celebrating the Lincoln Highway.

The annual conference is held each year somewhere along the corridor from New York to San Francisco. This last summer, Lake Tahoe dazzled attendees with their local culture and history, and two years ago Dixon, Illinois, birthplace of Ronald Reagan, hosted the week-long conference.

The conference will begin Monday, June 18, providing something for everybody. Plans are for a special welcome reception open to anyone wishing to have answers about the historic road, and there will be a special Marmon automobile exhibit one day of the conference. Attendees are from all over the United States and the world, and usually leave with much more knowledge of the early automobile era and this famous highway, and about this area of the country.

According to conference organizer Jim Cassler, there will be additional tours focusing on Ohio’s Amish Country, a train trip on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad and a trip to the National Packard Museum in Warren, Ohio honoring Lincoln Highway co-founder, Henry Joy, who was also president of Packard Motors. Presidential activities will include Canton’s First Ladies National Historic Site, while a trip to Marion will highlight Warren Harding’s involvement in the early highway.

Anyone interested in learning more may visit www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org or www.historicbyway.com for general history of the highway. You may follow breaking information on Facebook as well. Registration information will be available there at a later date.

Contact: Mike Hocker, Executive Director
Ohio Lincoln Highway Historic Byway
www.historicbyway.com
Voice: (419) 468-6773
Fax: (419) 468-5139
email: info@historicbyway.com

Chris Plummer

Lincoln Highway Association — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:48:54 +0000

Chris Plummer, a long-time supporter of the Lincoln Highway and a past president of the Lincoln Highway Association, has passed away. This is a great loss. Our condolences go out to his friends and family.

Christopher Plummer, Crandall Funeral Home (Evanston, Wyo.), November 15, 2011

Lincoln Highway Association is now on Google+

Lincoln Highway Association — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:00:58 +0000

For all you Google+ users out there, we now have a Google+ Page you can follow:

Lincoln Highway Association on Google+

As a reminder, we’re also on Facebook and Twitter. Join us here, there, and everywhere!

2012 LHA Conference in Canton

Lincoln Highway Association — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:00:45 +0000

The Ohio chapter of the Lincoln Highway Association and the Ohio Lincoln Highway Historic Byway will be hosting the 2012 Lincoln Highway Association conference in Canton, Ohio, for a week beginning Monday, June 18.

2012 Lincoln Highway conference in Canton, Brian Butko, Lincoln Highway News, October 11, 2011

Norman Root

Lincoln Highway Association — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:37:47 +0000

Norman Root, long-time member of the Lincoln Highway Association, president of the California chapter and past California state director, has passed away. He was also a retired bridge engineer for the California Department of Transportation. Norm will be sorely missed.

Long-time LH fan and researcher Norm Root, Brian Butko, Lincoln Highway News, September 29, 2011.

LHA Conference reflections

Lincoln Highway Association — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:00:43 +0000

Cecelia Otto writes about her experiences at this year’s Lincoln Highway Association Annual Conference in South Lake Tahoe.

Final day of the conference, June 23, 2011
Post-conference highlights and reflections, July 4, 2011

Photos of the LHA Conference tours

Lincoln Highway Association — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:44:59 +0000

Cecelia Otto, a songwriter who is traversing the Lincoln Highway, has posted some of her photo highlights of the tours at this year’s LHA Annual Conference in South Lake Tahoe.

West tour, from South Lake Tahoe to Clarksville, California
East tour, from South Lake Tahoe to Dayton, Nevada

Lincoln Highway kiosk to be installed in Plymouth, IN

Lincoln Highway Association — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 03:31:44 +0000

The city of Plymouth, Indiana has granted the Lincoln Highway Association permission to install a Lincoln Highway tourist information kiosk at the corner of Jefferson Street (Lincoln Highway) and Cleveland Street.

Plymouth tax abatements pay off, City Attorney Nelson Chipman announces, Virginia Ransbottom, South Bend (Ind.) Tribune, April 26, 2011
(scroll to the bottom of the article for the Lincoln Highway kiosk)