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The Lincoln Highway

15 Thursday Dec 2022

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The Lincoln Highway
America’s First Coast-to-Coast Automobile Highway

The Lincoln Highway was established in 1913 when a group of businessmen involved in the automobile industry decided to sponsor and promote a transcontinental highway for automobile traffic.

They organized the Lincoln Highway Association and dedicated their proposed highway to the memory of President Abraham Lincoln. On September 10, 1913, the route of the highway was announced, and the general public was invited to become members of the association. Contributions to help finance the improvement of the highway were solicited from businesses and private citizens.

The route that was chosen for the Lincoln Highway went from New York City to San Francisco, following the straightest line that was possible. In the beginning, the route was laid out along already existing roads, but an important part of the plan was that these roads would be improved and the route shortened wherever possible.

A major goal of the Lincoln Highway Association was to persuade local, state, and the federal government to get involved in the improvement and construction of automobile roads and highways. The Association wanted the Lincoln Highway to be a model for the building of roads throughout the United States. By 1928 they felt that for the most part they had achieved their goals, and it was decided to dissolve the association. But the Lincoln Highway lives on. Although most of the original highway has been replaced by modern roads such as US Highway 30, US 40, and Interstate 80, many sections of the Lincoln Highway are still being used today.

In western Utah, the original 1913 route of the Lincoln Highway came through the city of Grantsville, then continued west through Skull Valley, Fish Springs, Callao, and Ibapah. In 1919, construction projects at Johnson Pass in the Stansbury Mountains and on the mud flats west of Granite Peak were completed, and the route was changed to go through Tooele and Gold Hill, which shortened the route by about 50 miles. Grantsville was dropped from the route. But another change came in 1927. For several years, the state of Utah had been working on a road across the Great Salt Lake Desert to Wendover, a small town on the Nevada border. This project was completed in 1925, and two years later, the Lincoln Highway Association made the decision to incorporate this new road into its official route. Grantsville was on the Lincoln Highway again.

This is Sons of Utah Pioneers historic marker #178, located at Lincoln Park, 550 West Clark Street in Grantsville, Utah

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The Lincoln Highway: A Vision that Spanned America

18 Thursday Aug 2022

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The Lincoln Highway: A Vision that Spanned America

The Visionary: Carl Fisher was a dreamer with an entrepreneurial spirit. After amassing a large fortune and building a reputation in the auto-parts industry, Fisher began to dream of building a paved, hard-surface, coast-to-coast highway. He envisioned a magnificent roadway that spanned the United States and officially closed the gap between the East and the West forever.

The Vision: Prior to the Lincoln Highway’s completion, the majority of roadways in America were unpaved, dusty trails that aimlessly crooked and kinked from one settlement to the next. The disjointed nature of the roadways did not permit transcontinental travel. Fisher recognized the growing popularity of the automobile and saw the need for a national road which would allow individuals to travel at their own pace, a luxury not afforded by trains.

Construction began in 1913 with the proposed highway route starting in Times Square in New York City and passing through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and ending in San Francisco, California’s Lincoln Park. As the construction effort moved forward, paving the roadway became an expensive proposition, and much of the route was left unpaved until state and federal funds were invested in the project almost a decade later.

The Vision Fades: The Lincoln Highway triggered the American people’s desire to connect and drive across the nation. Witnessing the economic prosperity that followed the highway route, every state in the Union wanted a named highway built within their borders. Soon, named highways began to pepper the landscape. The new roadways shared routes, intersecting and overlapping in a confusing tangle. The time for a national system of highways was looming.

In March 1925, the American Association of State Highway Officials ( AASHO ) started planning a federal highway system. All named roads (including the Lincoln Highway) were ignored in their planning. Eventually, the Lincoln Highway was broken up into U.S. 1, U.S. 30 (including U.S. 30N and U.S. 30S ), U.S. 530, U.S. 40, and U.S. 50. All road signs featuring the Lincoln Highway name were removed. By the 1940s, the Lincoln Highway had faded away.

This historic marker is located at the Schellbourne Rest Area is located along Highway 93 in Nevada.

Nevada Northern Railway

20 Wednesday Jul 2022

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Nevada Northern Railway

Mark Requa’s Nevada Consolidated Copper Company laid 150-mile of track from Cobre, on the Southern Pacific line, to Ely in 1905-06 to haul ore from the Copper Flat mines west of Ely.

Ore was loaded into railroad gondolas at Copper Flat for the trip to the smelter at McGill, over a double-track trestle that was 1720 feet long. The trestle burned in 1922 and was replaced with an earth-fill span.

Passenger service and the “school train” carrying McGill youth to Ely High School ended in 1941. With the closing of local copper mines in 1983, the railroad ceased operations. Currently, part of the line serves the Nevada Northern Railway Museum for live steam rides. The East Ely shop complex for the Railway was listed as a National Historic Landmark District in 2006. 

This is Nevada State Historical Marker #100 located at the White Pine Public Museum at 2000 East Aultman Street in Ely, Nevada.

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Ely – Forging the Link

16 Saturday Jul 2022

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Ely – Forging the Link

James H. Simpson put the future site of Ely on the map during his 1859 exploration through the Great Basin. In the 1860s, silver and gold deposits were discovered nearby in what became the Robinson Mining District. Ely developed as a regional center, becoming the White Pine County seat in 1887. The area grew dramatically in the early 1890s with major copper discoveries. The Nevada Northern Railway, headquartered in East Ely, carried ore from the mines in Ruth to the McGill smelter, as well as connecting Ely to the world on its 150 mile route north to the transcontinental railroad.

The towns of eastern Nevada were joined during the late nineteenth century by a network of wagon roads. In 1913, the road through Ely was incorporated into the transcontinental Lincoln Highway, though it was not paved until 1922. Ely had over 2,000 residents and offered many services, making it an excellent stopping place on the long road across the Great Basin. When the copper industry declined after World War I, the struggling town turned to travelers for income.

The Lincoln Highway was designated U.S. 50 in 1926. By mid-century the popularity of the Victory Highway, now Interstate 80, reduced U.S. 50 to the status of “The Loneliest Road in America.”

In addition to the Lincoln Highway, two other major national roadways converge at Ely. The Midland trail, designated Route 6 in 1937, was an early coast to coast automobile road that also connected Ely to Tonopah and southern California. U.S 93, which passes north-south through Ely takes travelers from Canada almost to the Mexican border.

This is Nevada State Historical Marker #269, located at 681 East Aultman Street in Ely, Nevada.
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Copper Country

16 Saturday Jul 2022

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Copper Country

The famed open-pit copper mines of eastern Nevada, including the Liberty Pit, largest in the state, are located two miles south of this point. Through the first half of the twentieth century, this area produced nearly a billion dollars in copper, gold, and silver. The huge mounds visible from here are waste rock, which was removed to uncover the ore.

Two miles east of here, near Lane City, was the Elijah, the first mine discovered in the Robinson Mining District. Lane City, originally called Mineral City, was settled in 1869 and had a population of 400. At Mineral City was the Ragsdale Station, one hotel, and a stage station.

This is Nevada State Historical Marker #9, located outside Ely, Nevada.
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Sugar House Monument Lincoln Highway Marker

04 Monday May 2020

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Another in my documenting all of the Lincoln Highway markers I come across. See the others here.

These markers are located next to the Sugar House Monument in Sugar House, Salt Lake City, Utah. One at the east end of the block and one at the west end, both right along the roadway of 2100 South and on the south side of 2100 South.

Lincoln Highway Markers

05 Monday Nov 2018

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Lincoln Highway Memorial Markers

One of the earliest transcontinental highways in the U.S. was the Lincoln Highway, 2,436 markers were placed along the route on Sept 1, 1928. I have come across many in my exploring and started this page to start to document and keep track of them all.

I found a cool map here.

My map I’m building is here.

– Nevada Markers –

  • Copper Country (Ely, NV )
  • 636 E Aultman St
  • 2000 E Aultman St
  • Schellbourne Rest Area

– Utah Markers –

  • Benson Grist Mill – Stansbury Park, UT
  • Lincoln Highway Marker – Magna, UT
  • Sugar House Monument Markers
  • Parleys Way on the Lincoln Highway
  • The Golden Pass Road and Tollhouse

– Wyoming Markers –

  • Sunset Cabins on the Lincoln Highway
  • Lincoln Highway – Black and Orange Cabins

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  • This historic marker in Wendover.

Parleys Way on the Lincoln Highway

12 Monday Sep 2016

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(Located at Parley’s Plaza)

The Nation’s first coast-to-coast route for automobile travel followed Parley P. Pratt’s Golden Pass road into the valley of the Great Salt Lake.  Spanning the Country during the years from 1913 to 1928, the Lincoln Highway was conceived and financed by private sources before the national government became responsible for interstate highways.

The first federal highway acts were passed by Congress during the 1920s.  Route numbers were assigned to all major highways and the Lincoln Highway become a part of America’s history.

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– Parley P. Pratt Monument –

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Born in New York in 1807, Parley Parker Pratt converted to Mormonism in 1830 and became one of its most successful missionaries and writers.  After joining the original Mormon pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley, he became a leading explorer and colonist. A great builder of roads and communities, Parley’s soul was full of romance, poetry and song.  He authored many widely-used religious tracts, popular hymns, and a colorful autobiography.  Parley was killed while doing missionary work in Arkansas in 1857.

See the other Lincoln Highway Markers I’ve found on this page.

Sunset Cabins on the Lincoln Highway

12 Monday Sep 2016

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The Sunset Cabins are located along Bear River Drive, formally the Lincoln Highway.  This historic building once served as a tourist camp for travelers along this transcontinental highway and serves as one of the few remaining original structures along Wyoming’s portion of the Lincoln Highway.  An example of spanish-mission architecture, the Sunset Cabins pose a unique opportunity for historic preservation and redevelopment.  The Evanston Historic Preservation Commission is working in conjunction with the Bear River Drive Renaissance Partnership to plan the future of this historic site.  In the meantime, the Evanston Historic Preservation Commission has researched the history of this site.  Their research has been collected into a historical assessment of the property in order to prepare to designate the property as a Locally Designated Cultural Resource.  A public hearing considering this designation was held by the Historic Preservation Commission in July.  The Evanston Historic Preservation Commission voted unanimously to recommend to the Evanston City Council that the property be designated as a locally significant cultural resource.  The Evanston City Council will consider the designation of this site as a locally significant cultural resource at a work session scheduled for Tuesday August 10th at 5:00pm in the Machine Shop.  Pending their discussion, the designation may be considered for approval at the August 17th regular City Council meeting.

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