Dixie and Lincoln (US-30) Highways Overview

Lincoln Highway Link

I'm also working on US-66 (Route 66), US-20 and US-40 (National Roads).

Dixie Highway

I saw a PBS show about some Chicago history, and when they were on the south side, they talked about being on the Dixie Highway to Florida. Now I know the rest of the route.

1915 (source)
Billy Shockey: Also Western Ave. I believe it is the longest street in the United States.

I knew Western Avenue was the only street in Chicago that went all the way from the north border to the south border. I didn't realized that it went south of the Chicago border and continued as the Dixie Highway to Florida.

Satellite

Looking some more at the national map, I knew that Lincoln Highway (US30) went through Fort Wayne, IN. I didn't know that US-24 west of Fort Wayne was part of the initial national highway system. 

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Lincoln Highway

The reason I documented the Dixie Highway before I documented the Lincoln Highway is because I've already discussed the Lincoln Highway here and there in my notes. And the work required to pull it all together intimitaed me. I still can't do all that work, but at least I can get started. 

Currently, my main source of information is a gazebo in Rochelle, IL. It has a much more detailed map of the highway than this map. (I just discovered that the link given in that gazeo, http://www.drivelincolnhighway.com/, no longer works. Bummer) But this map is a nice overview.

Brian Butko posted

This map more accurately shows the "bump" in Indiana.

Janice Olszewski Spann posted

A map with an even more accurate bump in Indiana. And it shows how the highway originally went up through the far western suburbs of Chicagoland before it headed west. Note that the overview map at the bottom explains: "the Lincoln Highway was the first successful, all-weather, coast-to-coast automobile highway."

20150913,16 4721r via Dennis DeBruler

This post is my motivation for starting an overview.

Paul gilger posted
The Western Terminus of the Lincoln Highway is San Francisco’s Lincoln Park, seen here in the lower right corner of this photo.
[But the closest route marking of US-30 on Google Maps is in Nebraska.]

Notes that mention Lincoln Highway from east to west:

• Lincoln Highway (Truck Route) Hackensack River Bridge at Jersey City, NJ
• Pulaski Skyway Bridges over Two Rivers in South Kearny, NJ
• Lower Trenton Bridge over Delaware River at Trenton, NJ
• Iron Bridge over Delaware River at Trenton, NJ
• Thorndale, PA
• Coatesville, PA
• Bridges over Susquehanna River between Columbia and Wrightsville, PA
• York, PA
• New Oxford, PA
• Gettysburg, PA
• Everett, PA
• 1902+1935 US-30 Narrows Bridge over Raystown Branch Juniata River near Bedford, PA
• Irwin, PA
• East Pittsburgh, PA, Westinghouse Electric
• US-30 George Westinghouse Bridge over Turtle Creek at East Pittsburgh, PA
• Bucyrus, OH: Sinclair and Texaco gas stations
• Bucyrus, OH: overpass
• Delphos, OH
• Falstaff/Berghoff Brewery in Fort Wayne, IN
• Wells Street Bridge over St. Marys River in Fort Wayne, IN
• Ligonier, IN
• Merrillville, IN
• Alt-30 30th Street Bridge over the Calumet River in Chicago, IL
• Chicago Heights, IL (Phillips 66 gas station)
• Near Pennsy Panhandle Hartsdale Yard in Schererville, IL
• Joliet, IL
• Plainfield, IL
• The Importance of Streetcars in Chicago Overview
• DeKalb, IL: interpretive mural
• First paved mile was near Malta, IL, in 1914
• Rochelle, IL: gazebo
• Rochelle, IL: old gas station
• Bridge over the Mississippi River between Clinton, IA, and Fulton , IL
• Clinton, IA, C&NW railyard
• LeGrand, IA
• Gothenburg, NE
• Ogallala, NE: Three Grain Elevators and US-30 (Lincoln Highway), Color TV, Air Condition and Cable TV signage
• "Highway to Heaven" in Wyoming
• Donner Memorial (Rainbow) Bridge east of Donner, CA
• SOC Bridge over San Joaquin River in Lathrop, CA
• Carquinez Bridges over Carquinez Strait at Crocket, CA

Old Gas Stations has multiple geographic locations.