The Lincoln Highway

[Gary_in_Indiana]

Upon further review, I have determined that while my office is on the original Lincoln Highway (Goshen Road, which becomes US 33), my farm property is on a part of what was then US 30, the later southern shortcut which avoided Goshen and South Bend and went westward from Fort Wayne through Columbia City, Warsaw, etc.

The turn from US 33 to (now-old) US 30 (where my property is located) had one of the first truck stops along the highway. It later moved south to the intersection of US 33 and the current US 30 (and, interestingly enough, Interstate 69 here as well).

 

[jmc]

If I ever knew that the original Lincoln Highway was the main drag of my home town, I had forgotten it! My parents had the Western Auto store in Churubusco, Indiana for about 25 years. I must have swept at least a ton of dirt onto that highway.

 

[MossRoad]

My grandma use to tell me a story about gettting stranded in Churubusco for a few days waiting for car parts back in the 30's. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[California]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( In responding to a post in another forum here, I mentioned that my property is located on a section of the old Lincoln Highway here... wondered if any other TBN'ers lived or worked along a part of it?

For those of you who don't know, the Lincoln highway was the first transcontinental highway for automobiles in America. It winds it's way from New York to San Francisco... It's really a great bit of American history right at the end of my drive.

Gary in Indiana )</font>

I've lived, and worked, near where Lincoln Hwy comes through northern California in several instances. To get this thread back on tractors...

One summer in high school I got a job in a cafe/grocery facing the two lane Lincoln Hwy/US40 at the west end of Donner Lake. Every day after work I hitched a ride up to watch construction of new I-80 Donner Pass over the ridge high above the lake, nearly 7,000 ft elevation. It was awesome to watch dozens of bulldozers and pan scrapers tackle the day's fresh blasted granite, literally the backbone of the Sierras, and try to move the blasted material like it was dirt. I can still hear the grinding and scraping sounds when the equipment encountered granite that hadn't fragmented. I can't imagine the wear that super-hard rock was causing to the equipment.

Nearly all of the Lincoln Highway can still be retraced across California, by markers on principal streets in several cities and in the few remaining rural stretches. As a principal transportation corridor it has gotten built up quickly.

 

[MossRoad]

I know that turn well Gary! My wife went to college in Fort Wayne and on my way home from visiting her I always had a delemma... straight across 30 to 31 or the scenic route up 33. If it was a nice day, I always chose 33. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Durbob]

I was in Churubusco last week picking up at a place right behind Dana corporation. BRC or something like that.

 

[LBrown59]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Is that Highway 33 Gary? If so, it runs right through South Bend and is named Lincolnway in some sections.

Another neat historical road near us is US40, the National Road in central Indiana. Lots of early American architecture still intact all along the way. Plus, there is Webb's Antique Mall in Centerville. We try to get there at least once a year on our various jaunts /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif )</font>

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US 40 goes through Cambridge ,OH which is about 55 miles up I 77 from me.

 

[crk133]

live 4 blocks south of the ole lincoln highway. work 3 blocks north of it. and it is called lincolnway in town and lincoln highway outside of town (aka "old 30") /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

<font color="blue"> live 4 blocks south of the ole lincoln highway. work 3 blocks north of it. and it is called lincolnway in town and lincoln highway outside of town (aka "old 30") </font>

If only your profile were filled out, we'd all know what "town" it is to which you refer. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif Where do you live??? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

<font color="blue"> Is that Highway 33 Gary? If so, it runs right through South Bend and is named Lincolnway in some sections. </font>

Rob,

The original route took 33 out of Fort Wayne up to South Bend so that's where the names originated. In later years the route was changed in only two places across the entire length of it from New York to San Francisco and one of those changes was here in Indiana.

Instead of taking 33 up to South Bend a turn to the left off 33 and onto 30 eliminated that leg completely and took traffic from here west to Columbia City, Warsaw, etc.