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Kickoff celebration for the Lincoln Highway Centennial in Indianapolis

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September 21–22, 2012
Sponsored by the Indiana Lincoln Highway Association

Experience the place where it all began, inspired by Hoosier visionary Carl G. Fisher.

Friday, September 21

  • Carl Fisher and James Allison Estates at Marian University
  • Auto industrialist gravesites at Crownhill Cemetery
  • Stutz Building
  • Optional IMAX film on historic roads in Indiana in the evening at the Indiana State Museum
  • book signing by Indiana auto historians/historic roads authors

Saturday, September 22

  • Indiana Auto Pioneer Tour interpreted by auto historian Dennis Horvath
  • A historic recreation of the luncheon where Carl G. Fisher announced his vision for America’s first transcontinental road
  • Jeff Kuehl as Carl G. Fisher, the Father of the Lincoln Highway
  • A unique behind-the-scenes tour of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, built by Carl G. Fisher and three business partners

Share the road! Explore! Have fun with those who are like-minded and enjoy traveling America’s two-lane roads. Discover Indiana’s auto-making and road-building heritage.

Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! Register today! Early bird discounts may apply.

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Park Forest, IL dedicates Lincoln Highway mural on Juneteenth

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Park Forest, Illinois dedicated its new Lincoln Highway mural on Juneteenth — June 19 — which celebrates the emancipation of slaves in Texas on June 19, 1865, the first widespread enforcement of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The mural is part of a series of murals produced by the Illinois Lincoln Highway Coalition.

Iowa DOT presents US 30 widening plans in Benton County

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The Iowa Department of Transportation has presented its preferred design for widening US 30 through Benton County. Interchanges will be added at US 218 and Iowa Route 21. In between these new interchanges, two eastbound lanes will be added to the south of the existing road, which will carry westbound traffic. Part of this segment of US 30 carried the Lincoln Highway.

8/5: Streetcars of Western Pennsylvania

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The Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor is hosting a talk by Glenn Smeltzer on the West Penn Railways, an interurban streetcar system in Westmoreland and Fayette counties in Pennsylvania. The talk will be at the Lincoln Highway Experience in Latrobe, Pennsylvania on Saturday, August 5, at 2:00 PM.

2012 Lincoln Highway Buy-Way: August 9-11

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The eighth annual Lincoln Highway Buy-Way takes place from Thursday, August 9 to Saturday, August 11. The yard sales will take place along the Lincoln Highway in Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa.