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.
In an opinion column for Vinton Today, Dean Close writes about how the Lincoln Highway was created and what it can teach today’s voters and politicians.
The Glidden Homestead and Historical Center, along the Lincoln Highway in DeKalb, Illinois, celebrated its 150th anniversary this year. The center is the historical home of Joseph Glidden, inventor of barbed wire.
The Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor has released a mobile-optimized web site, www.lincolnhighwayexperience.org, for connecting travelers on the go with destinations along the Lincoln Highway in western Pennsylvania.
Paul Harrar writes about the collection of historic Lincoln Highway photos at the University of Michigan, in particular the highway around Donner Summit.
In 1931, the Colorado spur of the Lincoln Highway between Greeley and Fort Morgan was bypassed with a straighter route, paved with concrete.
Alex Marshall of Governing magazine argues that the transition from private initiatives like the Lincoln Highway to a state-owned, federally-coordinated system of highways was crucial to the successful development of a road network in the United States, and that passenger rail needs similar innovations in “bureaucratic infrastructure” to become as successful.
The city of Dublin, California is planning to install four Lincoln Highway signs along Dublin Boulevard, which was the Lincoln Highway’s alignment through the city. The cost of buying and installing the signs will be covered by the Dublin Historical Preservation Association.
The city of Folsom, California has dedicated the 1893 Folsom Historic Truss Bridge after Donald Alden, who spearheaded efforts to have the bridge returned to the city after it sat in Siskiyou County from 1931 to 2000. The bridge carried Lincoln Highway traffic until it was bypassed by the adjacent Rainbow Bridge in 1917.
The Kearney Hub’s “This Week in History” column briefly covers the seedling mile of the Lincoln Highway in Kearney, Nebraska, completed in 1915.