The historic Pure Oil gas station building in Geneva, Illinois will be preserved by its current owner. Its service bays will be converted into drive-through lanes for a bank. The owner’s previous plans for tearing down the building had been rejected by the city.
Here are some news articles that covered the Lincoln Highway Buy-Way earlier this month.
Fulfilling the wishes of Ron Preston, most of the memorabilia from the George Preston Filling Station in Belle Plaine, Iowa has been auctioned off.
Tracy Press columnist Sam Matthews writes about the pivotal decision to route the Lincoln Highway through the community of Tracy, California, as opposed to a road north of town.
Here is a great video of a historic Union Pacific steam locomotive traveling along the Lincoln Highway in Nebraska, via the Lincoln Highway Nebraska Scenic and Historic Byway.
The History Channel Magazine ran an article on the Lincoln Highway in its July/August 2009 issue.
A unique marker from 1925 acknowledges the people responsible for paving a stretch of the Lincoln Highway south of Le Grand, Iowa.
Salt Lake Tribune columnist Tom Wharton writes about the Lincoln Highway and its various routes in Utah. LHA Treasurer Jesse Petersen is quoted in the article.
Patch columnist Michael Lambert writes about more good eats along the Lincoln Highway in Plainfield, Illinois in the highway’s early decades.