Talk:Route of the Lincoln Highway

Elkhart

In central Indiana, both the route listed and U.S. 30 both travel on roads identified as Lincoln Hwy or Lincoln Way. Was the highway rerouted at some point to bypass Elkhart and South Bend? Was one or the other identified as an alternate route?

Correct. The original route followed the good roads, northwest from Fort Wayne, to pass around the Grand Kankakee Marsh. From South Bend, the Lincoln Highway followed the 'old Sauk Trail to Valparaiso, then continued westward into Illinois. When the roads across the Kankakee were improved and bridges completed, simultaneous to the establishment of the Federal Highway Number System, the Lincoln Highway was dropped south to the U.S. 30 alignment, shortening the route. Thus, the 1913 and the 1928 routes through Indiana vary across the entire middle of Indiana, only matching from Fort Wayne, east to Ohio and from Valparaiso, west to Illinois. See Lincoln Highway: Indiana --Chris Light (talk) 03:02, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

North Broad

"....may have followed Clinton Avenue to Elizabeth Avenue in Newark and North Broad Street in Newark." I have only been on these streets a dozen times in my life, but shouldn't the last mention of "Newark" be "Elizabeth"? Jim.henderson (talk) 06:12, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

The 1913-1928 Lincoln Highway never entered Livermore, CA on North Front or Vasco roads.!! From Altamont Pass Road it ran westward (underneath) Fwy 580 to First St in Livermore, and continued on to Junction Ave, Portola Ave, E.Airway Blvd, and then out (underneath) Fwy 580 again to Dublin.

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Kaelin von Gross----(sources derived from official Lincoln Highway Association records and maps) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.225.6.105 (talk) 21:04, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

South Lake Tahoe

The article states that the Lincoln Highway traveled from Hayward, California to Oakland, California via Foothill Blvd. The United States Geological Survey has a web site, at http://bard.wr.usgs.gov/, called the San Francisco Bay Area Research Database. This site has historical 15 minute topographical map quadrangles for the entire Bay Area and as far east as Folsom, CA. For the East Bay this site has the Hayward quadrangle, which covers the East Bay from Union City to Southern Oakland for the years 1899, 1915, 1942, and 1959. The 1915 map is of particular importance as it shows the area during the time period that the Lincoln Highway was routed through Hayward, CA. On this map, Foothill Blvd. does not exist or has not yet been built. However East 14th Street and Mission Blvd do exist not only on this map but also on the 1899 topographical quadrangle. --76.227.63.141 (talk) 21:27, 26 December 2010 (UTC)John Cook--76.227.63.141 (talk) 21:27, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

West to East or East to West?

The editors are correct in calling for this article to be written in the style that we've become use to when dealing with highway descriptions, but I would like to propose that this is a unique situation that warrants and exceptions.

1. The identification of the Lincoln Highway predates the U.S. Federal Highway System and the standards created for it.
2. The process was a commercial enterprise to encourage the improvement of the nations highways, by corporations that would directly benefit form the process.
3. The route was selected, partially based on the advertising interest of the communities along the route.
4. The traditional literature and current web-sites associated with the preservation of the route use an east to west orientation.

• Federal Highway Administration site on the Lincoln Highway
• James Lin's State by State web-site admittedly, the Lincoln Highway Associations map page does list the states west to east. While it's not conclusive that it should be left, I'd support making no changes without looking at the historic literature that was produce about the route, when it was an actual highway. I suspect it goes from east to west, as the driving public was mostly in the east, although the western states may be west to east, as the public was mostly along the Pacific coast. --Chris Light (talk) 03:20, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

I have a book on the geology of Interstate 80 and it runs east to west. Another book, "'Let's Go Roadtripping USA, The complete coast-to-coast guide to America" mirrors much of the Lincoln Highway and it runs east to west. Normally I'm a big defender of the west coast (boy do I hate East Coast times for West Coast sport events), but saying something must be written in west-to-east order is a silly rule! Its like saying don't end a sentence with a preposition, which is not a rule for Germanic based languages. Don't add rules that aren't needed. Okay I do hate finding stuff at the end of the book because its on the west coast but I won't make a rule to forbid it. --FAHansson (talk)

I removed the "requirement". That rule is more for highways with mileposts. The rule-of-thumb is that the article follows the mileposts. –Fredddie™ 23:57, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

New Jersey, Middlesex County

The article says that prior to 1919, the Lincoln Highway followed Colonia Blvd, New Dover Rd, and Middlesex Ave rather than following the north side of the rail line as shown on the 1924 Lincoln Highway guide book maps. However, there is no source given for the building of a new road in 1919, nor is there a link or reference to the 1905 map discussed. The source that is given links to a map that was surveyed in the 19th century. I've seen other maps from the late 19th century that do indeed show this route as the original road. However, I'm not certain this was true for the 1913-1919 period. The 1918 Automobile Blue Book (Volume T, transcontinental routes) says that the driver on the Lincoln Highway should follow St. Georges Avenue south to the rail line, then make a right and follow the tracks west to Iselin. There is a 1921 USGS topographic map that was originally surveyed in 1887 (by the Army Corps of Engineers), revised in 1899, and field checked in late 1913 (on the USGS map store site). It shows Colonia Blvd continuing south to the rail line, and then crossing the rail line just west of the creek crossing. That road on the north side of the tracks also extends northeast at least as far as New Dover Road if not all the way to St. Georges. — ★Parsa ☞ talk 19:02, 18 January 2013 (UTC)