Lincoln Logs: Creston Booster Days-- Waymarkers

Lincoln Logs: New News About an Old Road.


1. CRESTON BOOSTER DAYS-- September 12-14th-- Illinois. This is the 52nd annual event which marks the end of communication celebrations through this stretch of Illinois Highway 38, better known as the Lincoln Highway, through this part of the state.

Nearby Malta has Illinois' first seedling mile. Two weekends ago, Rochelle had its annual Lincoln Highway Heritage Festival the same weekend Dekalb had its Cornfest, one of the largest free-music celebrations in the state. Cornfest also marks the return of the students to the campus of Northern Illinois University.


2. WAYMARKERS-- Been marking, this time, a part of the old Lincoln Highway in California, specifically the part that goes past the state capitol building in Sacramento. That section was originally called the Northern and Central Valley Routes.

From 1917 to 1927 this was the Lincoln's northern route from Truckee which passed the capitol building (begun in 1860 and finished in 1873) and skirted the northern edge of the Capitol Mall and Capitol Park on "L" Street.

It met up with the southern route that went back to Reno, Nevada, at 29th Street where the now united route continued on to Stockton.

Several pictures of the capitol and a 1917 map of Scaramento are featured.


Mighty Fine Old Road, That Lincoln. --RoadDog