The Lincoln Highway in Ohio

From the October 29th Canton (Ohio) Press-News.

Today, Jim Cassler from the Ohio Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor will be talking about the road at the Werner Inn at 131 E. Nassau Street in East Canton.

Jim is very involved in all things Lincoln and says Ohio has some of the best LH sites in the country with several brick-paved sections, many brick pillars, 1928 concrete markers, and historic buildings.

Most of today's road is not a part of the original LH. The original was very narrow and twisting and built along farm lanes. By 1917, the Lincoln Highway in Ohio had 72miles of brick, 166 of other surfaces and 18 miles of dirt. Three of those dirt miles were between Minerva and East Canton.

This original leg was used from 1913 to about 1940, but bigger and faster cars brought about road construction away from this section, which became residential and still exists close to its original form.

A Road is a Road is a Road. --RoadDog