Lincoln Highway Lost and Found

The May 4th Quad City Times reports that construction workers on a sewer project on the north side of 11th Street in DeWitt, Iowa, have found an original Boy Scout concrete Lincoln Highway marker, complete with large copper penny. Eleventh Street was the route of the original Lincoln Highway through town.

It was one of the 3,400 the Boy Scouts of America put up every mile along the highway back in 1928.

The city plans on restoring it and it will be replaced somewhere along 11th Street. Officials contacted the Iowa Lincoln Highway Association who expressed interest.

It would be interesting to find out how it came to be lost.

Lost and Found. --RoadDog