Bill and Karen, of Lafontaine, Ontario, Canada, are blogging about their latest two-lane road trip adventure along the Lincoln Highway.
The Delphos Canal Commission has updated its display of the Lincoln Highway in its museum. As part of the update, it has added a model of Admiral Richard Byrd’s Snow Cruiser, which traveled the Lincoln Highway on its way to Antarctica.
The Mansfield & Richland County Convention and Visitors Bureau invites Lincoln Highway travelers to visit Mansfield, Ohio and the surrounding countryside of Richland County.
Abigail and Annah Woods of Chester, Ohio, crafted handmade bracelets to raise money for Bright Point for Children, an organization that matches children in Kenya with sponsor families. The girls sold their bracelets during the Lincoln Highway Buy-Way yard sale.
Shoppers found plenty of bargains along the Lincoln Highway Buy-Way this year, which stretched for 250 miles across five states.
Two cities along the Lincoln Highway have been trying to eliminate at-grade railroad crossings since the 1920s.
The Calumet Avenue grade separation in Munster, Indiana was first brought up in 1922. The city is finally hoping to start construction next year and finish in 2016. The project is about three miles north of the intersection of Calumet Avenue and the Lincoln Highway (U.S. 30).
In Mansfield, Ohio, bridges over and under the railroads allowed the Lincoln Highway to be rerouted through the city by 1924, but other railroad crossings have not been separated to this day.
The Ashland Area Convention and Visitors Bureau is sponsoring the fifth annual Lincoln Highway Car Show and Swap Meet, on Saturday, August 13 from 9 am to 2:30 pm, in Ashland, Ohio.
Here are more news articles on this year’s Lincoln Highway Buy-Way, a multi-state garage sale along the Lincoln Highway. It takes place this Thursday through Saturday, August 4–6.
The sixth annual Lincoln Highway Buy-Way, a yard sale that stretches across hundreds of miles, will be held from Thursday, August 4 to Saturday, August 6. This year, five states are participating: Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia. Here is more information on how to participate in the Buy-Way:
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Chet Dyreson is traveling across the United States in his motorized wheelchair to raise attention to spinal cord injuries. Much of his route has been along the Lincoln Highway. He left Perris, California on May 30, and expects to reach Washington, D.C. on Monday, the 4th of July.
To find out more and donate, visit his web sites:
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