The Lincoln Highway across Indiana explores Indianas unique role in Lincoln Highway history and celebrates Indianas place in early automotive and road-building history. Once known as the "Main Street of America;" the Lincoln Highway route was established across northern Indiana in 1913; linking larger cities--Fort Wayne; Elkhart; Goshen; South Bend; LaPorte; and Valparaiso--to smaller communities. Most Lincoln Highway towns renamed their main streets Lincolnway in recognition of the nations first coast-to-coast auto road. When the Lincoln Highway Association shortened the route in 1926; the route linked Fort Wayne to Columbia City; Warsaw; and Plymouth; giving the state two Lincoln Highway routes. From Fort Wayne to the famous Ideal Section; between Dyer and Schererville; Indianas Lincolnway towns remain proudly connected to Lincoln Highway history. Through vintage photographs; postcards; advertisements; and other historical records; this armchair tour of the highway visits sites favored by early tourists; documents the people and places that made the highway a vital corridor; and celebrates Hoosier Carl Fishers leadership in the formation of the Lincoln Highway Association; as well as the people who work to preserve its legacy today.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Not as good as the Images of America series books but there ...By barneyNot as good as the Images of America series books but there is history in looking at old pictures.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A great resourceBy The Reviewer Formerly Known as Kurt JohnsonThis wonderful little book is part of Arcadia Publishingrsquo;s Postcard History series. and focuses on Grundy County. Illinois. It is chock full of black-and-white postcard shots from just about everywhere around the county ndash; from Morris to Coal City to Channahon and beyond. Each postcard has an interesting and highly informative caption. The postcards themselves are organized by type. which pretty much organizes them by era ndash; Early Private Mailing Cares (1880-1901). Undivided-Back Postcards (1901-1907). Divided-Back Postcards (1907-1914). White-Border and Divided-Back Postcards (1915-1930) and Linen and Photochrome Postcards (1993-2007).Overall. I found this to be a wonderful book. and like all of the books in this series. it is a great resource for any genealogist looking to capture information on the Grundy County of yesteryear. My one and only complaint against this wonderful book is that it would have been nice if the published has included an index of the postcards by town.But. that one small complaint aside. I do consider this to be a great book. one that is sure to interest anyone interested in Grundy County.
