Lincoln Highway Pavers Arrive

From the January 5, 2010, Omaha World Herald.

After quite the journey, 2,200 rare paving bricks arrived at the Great Platte River Road Archway in Kearney, Nebraska.

In 2008, workers in Canton, Ohio, found them during street renovations in that city. As a Boy Scout Eagle project, Brian Cassler cleaned, stacked, and organized them. His father runs the Lincoln Highway Trading Post in Canton. On January 3rd, he delivered them.

The City of Canton had donated them to the Archway, but getting them there was another situation.

An article about it in the Omaha World Herald caused Tim Wunsch, a member of the Lincoln Highway Association, and a trucker, who would pick up the bricks on a return trip from Pennsylvania and deliver them.

The bricks will be used to create a display at the Archway (which stretches over I-80). Plans call for a sixteen-foot wide road, the original width of the Lincoln Highway.

Job Well Done Brian and Tim. --RoadDog