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Article: Love affair with Lincoln Highway continues today
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- October 19, 2001
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THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM PRINTED VERSION
LINCOLN HIGHWAY
Art Schweitzer, vice president of the Indiana chapter of the Lincoln Highway Association, points to one of his thousands of photographs of U.S. 30 that he has taken. "At one time, there were 16 gas stations within two miles of each other in the Schererville town limits," Schweitzer said.(PHOTO - Color) (DAVE BARTMAN/POST-TRIBUNE)
Mile markers along the original Lincoln Highway were adorned with these penny-like Lincoln plaques, shown here nearly actual size.(PHOTO - Color)
Lt. Dwight D. Eisenhower was part of an Army convoy that rolled down Joliet Street in 1919.
It was known as the Lincoln Highway at the time.