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By Jan Shupert-Arick

The Lincoln street throughout Indiana explores Indiana’s specific function in Lincoln road heritage and celebrates Indiana’s position in early car and road-building heritage. as soon as often called the “Main road of America,” the Lincoln street course used to be tested throughout northern Indiana in 1913, linking higher cities—Fort Wayne, Elkhart, Goshen, South Bend, LaPorte, and Valparaiso—to smaller groups. so much Lincoln road cities renamed their major streets Lincolnway in reputation of the nation’s first coast-to-coast automobile street. while the Lincoln road organization shortened the direction in 1926, the path associated castle Wayne to Columbia urban, Warsaw, and Plymouth, giving the country Lincoln road routes. From fortress Wayne to the well-known perfect part, among Dyer and Schererville, Indiana’s Lincolnway cities stay proudly attached to Lincoln street background. via classic images, postcards, ads, and different ancient documents, this armchair journey of the road visits websites favorite via early travelers, records the folk and areas that made the road a necessary hall, and celebrates Hoosier Carl Fisher’s management within the formation of the Lincoln road organization, in addition to the folks who paintings to maintain its legacy today.

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