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* Lincoln Highway, the first road across America
* Lincoln Highway ( Australia ), in southern Australia
* 1913 – Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across United States.
* October 31 – The Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across the United States, is dedicated.
* U. S. Route 30, Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Astoria, Oregon: Lincoln Highway
It was traversed by the Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway, in 1913, and presently two major cross-country freeways, I-15 and I-80, intersect in the city.
According to the Federal Highway Administration ( FHWA ), the Lincoln Tunnel XBL is the country's HOV facility with the highest number of peak hour persons among HOV facilities with utilization data available, with 23, 500 persons in the morning peak, and 62, 000 passengers during the 4-hour morning peak.
The corner of 42nd Street and Broadway, at the southeast corner of Times Square, was the eastern terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the first road across the United States of America, which was conceived and mapped in 1913.
The Lincoln Highway proceeded west on 42nd Street to the Weehawken Ferry.
After crossing the Hudson River to Weehawken, New Jersey, the Lincoln Highway continued across the country to its western terminus in Lincoln Park in San Francisco, California.
Due to the overlapping of auto trail designations, portions of the route had other names that remain in common use, such as the Boston Post Road between Boston and New York, the Lincoln Highway between New York and Philadelphia, Baltimore Pike between Philadelphia and Baltimore, and the Dixie Highway in and south of eastern Georgia.
The Lincoln Highway was the first road for the automobile across the United States of America.
Conceived and promoted by Indiana entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, the Lincoln Highway spanned coast-to-coast from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco, originally through 13 states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and California.
In 1915, the " Colorado Loop " was removed, and in 1928, a realignment relocated the Lincoln Highway through the northern tip of West Virginia.
The first officially recorded length of the entire Lincoln Highway in 1913 was.
Conceived in 1912 and formally dedicated October 31, 1913, the Lincoln Highway was America's first national memorial to President Abraham Lincoln, predating the 1922 dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. by nine years.
As the first automobile road across America, the Lincoln Highway brought great prosperity to the hundreds of cities, towns and villages along the way.
The Lincoln Highway became affectionately known as " The Main Street Across America.
The Lincoln Highway was inspired by the Good Roads Movement.
In turn, the success of the Lincoln Highway and the resulting economic boost to the governments, businesses and citizens along its route inspired the creation of many other named long-distance roads ( known as National Auto Trails ), such as the Yellowstone Trail, National Old Trails Road, Dixie Highway, Jefferson Highway, Bankhead Highway, Jackson Highway, Meridian Highway and Victory Highway.

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The very fact that they came so near to winning by the wrong method, war, led directly to their losing both the war and the wrong thing they fought for, since it forced Lincoln to free their slaves as a military measure.
In the spring of 1863, Lincoln was optimistic about upcoming campaigns to the point of thinking the end of the war could be near if a string of victories could be put together ; these plans included Hooker's attack on Lee north of Richmond, Rosecrans ' on Chattanooga, Grant's on Vicksburg, and a naval assault on Charleston.
On March 17, Booth learned that Lincoln would be attending a performance of the play Still Waters Run Deep at a hospital near the Soldier's Home.
Booth assembled his team on a stretch of road near the Soldier's Home in the attempt to kidnap Lincoln en route to the hospital, but the president did not appear.
* 1217 – The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
When the challenge failed, the college had to become a segregated school, but it set aside funds to help establish the Lincoln Institute near Louisville to educate black students.
Initially located downtown at in Foggy Bottom ( near the Lincoln Memorial ), the observatory moved in 1893 to its present location on a 2000-foot circle of land atop Observatory Hill overlooking Massachusetts Avenue.
Howard Community College is located near the town center, while the University of Phoenix, American Career Institute, Lincoln College of Technology, Loyola University Maryland and Johns Hopkins University have facilities on the east side of town.
) While Burnside began assembling a supply base at Falmouth, near Fredericksburg, the Lincoln administration entertained a lengthy debate about the wisdom of his plan, which differed from the president's preference of a movement south on the O & A and a direct confrontation with Lee's army instead of the movement focused on the city of Richmond.
Grant and President Abraham Lincoln devised a coordinated strategy that would strike at the heart of the Confederacy from multiple directions, including attacks against Lee near Richmond, Virginia, and in the Shenandoah Valley, West Virginia, Georgia, and Mobile, Alabama.
Grant and President Abraham Lincoln devised a coordinated strategy that would strike at the heart of the Confederacy from multiple directions, including attacks against Lee near Richmond, Virginia, and in the Shenandoah Valley, West Virginia, Georgia, and Mobile, Alabama.
Tucker and his new wife, Vera ( married in 1923 at age 20 ), then took over a 6-month lease on a gas station near Lincoln Park, running the station together.
Hananiah Lincoln ( 1756-1814 ) is buried in a cemetery near Tinsley Bottom in Clay County.
The site of the Misión Vieja ( or " Old Mission ") is located near the intersection of San Gabriel Boulevard and Lincoln Avenue in Montebello, California ( known to the natives as Shevaanga ).
The station's studios and offices are located near Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, adjacent to ABC's corporate headquarters, and its transmitter is atop the Empire State Building.
Upon her death in 1290 at Harby, near the city of Lincoln, the body of Queen Eleanor was carried to the Gilbertine priory of St. Catherine, Lincoln in the south of Lincoln, where she was embalmed.
( Note: The Lincoln Tunnel ( opened in 1937 ), near 42nd Street, was not an original part of the Lincoln Highway.
Lincoln was also the publisher, and was based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania very near to where the highway passed through the city.
Cathedral Gorge and Lincoln County near Panaca

Lincoln and Pennsylvania
McClellan, a young West Point graduate, railroad executive, and Pennsylvania Democrat, took several months to plan and attempt his Peninsula Campaign, longer than Lincoln wanted.
It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers ' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg.
In October 1935 Nkrumah sailed from Liverpool to the United States and enrolled in Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.
Category: Lincoln University ( Pennsylvania ) alumni
* Lincoln, Pennsylvania
* 1863 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the military cemetery ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
* November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Sousa died of heart failure at the age of 77 on March 6, 1932, in his room at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Reading, Pennsylvania.
* Lincoln Park, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
* Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School, Midland, Pennsylvania
Other notable All-Steinway Schools are the Yale School of Music at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, the Juilliard School located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Cleveland Institute of Music in Ohio, Royal Holloway, University of London in England, the University of Melbourne Faculty of the VCA and Music in Victoria, Australia, the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China, and the University of South Africa in Pretoria, South Africa.
Despite the conference's name, the Big Ten actually consists of twelve schools, following the addition of Pennsylvania State University in 1993 and the University of Nebraska – Lincoln in 2011.
( Note: In Pennsylvania and Ohio, there have been many new 4-lane bypasses constructed on U. S. Route 30, so to follow the 1928 route of the Lincoln Highway, at times it is necessary to travel the old U. S. Route 30 alignments which travel through the center of the cities and towns along the route.
The convoy left the White House in Washington, D. C. on July 7, 1919, and met the Lincoln Highway route at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
* Old Lincoln Highway is a secondary street in Trevose, Pennsylvania, using the old highway alignment.
Butko had previously written an exhaustive guide to the Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania in 1996, which was revised and republished in 2002 with different photos and postcard images.
In 1922, another march titled " Lincoln Highway " was composed by George B. Lutz, and published by Kramer's Music House of Allentown, Pennsylvania.
On October 29, 2008, PBS premiered the new documentary film, A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway, produced by Rick Sebak with WQED in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
However, Breckinridge received almost no support in most of the Northern states ( which Lincoln swept except for split electoral votes from New Jersey going to Douglas and Lincoln ) but, as the candidate of the Buchanan faction, did outpoll Douglas in Pennsylvania and won Delaware and received some support comparable to Douglas in Connecticut.

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