The Lincoln Highway Association has become aware of a recent proliferation of histories, maps and other miscellaneous materials relating to the Lincoln Highway, available to be purchased through online sites such as Amazon and possibly in retail stores, that contain erroneous information about, and maps of, the Lincoln Highway. While there are many reliable histories and other materials relating to the Lincoln Highway such as our quarterly publication The Lincoln Highway Forum, all purchasers should satisfy themselves as to the quality of any such materials. A history and an interactive map of the Lincoln Highway are available at https://www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org, and a list of reliable publications and other materials are available under the Resources tab. All materials sold by the Lincoln Highway Association are available exclusively from the Lincoln Highway Trading Post at http://www.lhtp.com.
Category: General
Envelope of Lincoln Highway tour from 1915
Leonard Piszkiewicz of the United States Stamp Society writes about a cover from 1915 with a Lincoln Highway logo and a reference to the First “Water Wagon†Tour over the Lincoln Highway.
- Leonard Piszkiewicz, “Common Stamp — Extraordinary Cover.†The United States Specialist, March 2016, Vol. 87, No. 3 (Issue 1033): pp. 135–138. Republished with permission.
Lincoln Highway centennial named Top 100 event in 2013
The American Bus Association, a trade association of motorcoach operators and tour companies in the U.S. and Canada, has named next year’s Lincoln Highway centennial as one of its Top 100 events of 2013 in North America.
- Local Celebration Named Top 100 North America Event for 2013, Jordan Onwiler, Nebraska TV, September 8, 2012
- Lincoln Highway centennial named a top-100 event, Mike Konz, Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald, September 11, 2012
Bernie Queneau visits Lincoln Highway mural featuring himself
Bernard and Esther Queneau recently visited Frankfort, Illinois to see the village’s Lincoln Highway mural. It features four Eagle Scouts on their road trip across the Lincoln Highway in 1928, including a 16-year-old Bernie.
- Return of the Century: 100-Year-Old Man Recalls Coast-to-Coast Tour of Lincoln Highway, Joe Vince, Frankfort (Ill.) Patch, September 11, 2012
Lincoln Highway in the History Channel Magazine
The History Channel Magazine ran an article on the Lincoln Highway in its July/August 2009 issue.
- The Lincoln Highway, Cathy Madison, The History Channel Magazine, July/August 2009 (published online October 9, 2009)
A Lincoln Highway love story
The Repository of Canton, Ohio has a couple of articles on how the Lincoln Highway brought Bernie and Esther Queneau together. Bernie, who traveled the length of the Lincoln Highway as an Eagle Scout in 1928, just turned 100. Esther is a past president of the Lincoln Highway Association. They were married in 2003.
- Love on the Lincoln Highway, Gary Brown, The Repository (Canton, Ohio), June 22, 2012
- 1 man + 1 woman + 1 road = 2 love stories, The Repository (Canton, Ohio), June 23, 2012
Retracing a 1924 motorcycle trip on the Lincoln Highway
Over the past several weeks, Irv Townshend and his wife Susan drove across the Lincoln Highway, re-creating a trip that Irv’s father took back in 1924 on a Harley motorycle. Read about both the 1924 trip and this year’s tribute ride on their website.
Thanks to the Lincoln Highway Scenic and Historic Byway Association in Nebraska for the tip!
Fording the Lincoln Highway in 1924
The Henry Ford Museum has posted a short film from 1924 on Ford’s celebrating the production of its ten-millionth automobile by driving it across the country on the Lincoln Highway.
Thanks to Sarah Uthoff for the tip!
Constructing the Lincoln Memorial
“[The Lincoln Memorial’s] final plans were delayed from 1901 to 1912, during which time many other less costly and more utilitarian proposals came and went. One alternative was a Lincoln highway that would stretch from Washington to Gettysburg.”
- What America Looked Like: The Lincoln Memorial Under Construction, Brian Resnick, The Atlantic, February 10, 2012
IMAX movie on historic Indiana roads being filmed
Lori Cravens and Candy Yurcak are creating an IMAX film exploring historic roads in Indiana, including the Lincoln Highway, and why they are worth preserving. The film will be shown at this year’s Preserving the Historic Road conference in September.
- Preserving the Historic Road 2012 — Indiana · the filmmakers’ blog
- Porter County historical roads given star treatment in film, Phil Wieland, The Times of Northwest Indiana (Munster, Ind.), February 10, 2012
- Porter County’s Tourism Bureau Hosting Preserving the Historic Road Movie Crew, Indiana Dunes Tourism, hosted by PortageLife.com (Valparaiso, Ind.), February 9, 2012