Lincoln Logs-- Buy Way's Back-- Money for L-H Sculptures-- Faulkner's Service Station-- Ligonier, Pa, --Western Terminus Marker

Some News From the Lincoln Highway

1. The Lincoln Highway's Buy-Way is Back-- I came across a blog where the announcement that the annual Buy-Way in Ohio will be August 7 through 9 this year. This whole even keeps getting bigger every year and certainly brings the name of Lincoln Highway to the public.

2. $49,340 for Pennsylvania LH Sculptures-- The Feb. 4th Pittsburgh Tribune Review said that a $49,340 grant was given byComminity Connection to plan and design 20 foot sculptures along a 200 mile stretch of LH in Pennsylvania. This will be also along the Forbes Road, the same route traveled by General John Forbes and George Washington in 1758.

The sculptures will be completed by vocational and technical students in Somerset and Westmoreland counties. They will be made of metal and wire and will portray vintage autos and recognizable historical figures like gas attendants and waitresses.

3. Faulkner's Service and Filling Station-- Bourbon, Indiana-- Hoosier Reborn in his Hoosier Happenings Blog of February 4th had a picture of Faulkner's Service and Filling Station which opened for business in 1931 a mile west of Bourbon. The structure was built three years after the LH/US-30 was built across the back of the farm. "This may be one of the more intact examples of a filling station from the early Lincoln Highway days of our country. He'd been by it many times, but just found out what it was.

Not a very impressive building if you ask me, but of historical importance. http://hoosierhappenings.blogspot.com/.

4. Blogger Goes to Ligonier, Pa.-- Crystal Lynn in her Just By Walking Around Blog visited the town of Ligonier, Pa in her January 27th entry.

She said it was a colonial outpost in the 1700s. General Forbes came across and cleared a road to what is now Pittsburgh. A young George Washington visited the area during the French and Indian War.

Today, the Forbes Road is also known as the Lincoln Highway, the first major east-west highway in the US. Each town has a diamond in the middle of it. If you go east, you will visit Gettysburg.

The town had an ice-sculpting festival and she included a picture of a General Forbes sculpture.

http://justbywalkingaround.blogspot.com/.

5. Flickr Photo of Western Terminus-- mmhmm posted a picture on Flickr Jan. 27th of the western terminus Boy Scout marker. There are also LOTs of pictures of SF. Perhaps someone could tell which ones are on the old LH.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmhmm/

Keep on Down that Grand Old Lincoln Highway. --RoadDog