Of course, while in this vicinity you won't want to miss a visit to Mount Rushmore National Memorial where on the side of a mountain are the famous sculptures of Presidents Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt.

Symbolically, Marian Anderson ( a noted opera singer of her day ) sang a rendition of " America the Beautiful " on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after being refused use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her skin color.

* 1959 – The Lincoln Memorial design on the U. S. penny goes into circulation.

* 1939 – Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.

* Year collections: Rather than being satisfied with a single specimen of a type, a great many collectors collect type by year ; for example, one Memorial Lincoln Cent for every year from 1959 ( the year it was first minted ) to present.

...", from the " I Have a Dream " speech, delivered at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D. C. on August 28, 1963.

A month later, McLean wound up the 20th century by performing " American Pie " at the Lincoln Memorial Gala in Washington D. C. Brooks again played " American Pie " during We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.

At the unveiling of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington's Lincoln Park, Douglass was the keynote speaker.

* 1914 – In Washington, D. C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy .– Martin Luther King Jr .' s I Have a Dream speech, delivered August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC

Brooks at the We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial | We Are One concert in 2009

He was a member of the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and served as Co-Chair of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Cabinet.

* Lincoln Memorial

The wall is granite and V-shaped, with one side pointing to the Lincoln Memorial and the other to the Washington Monument.

* 1922 – In Washington, D. C. the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.

Roosevelt was included with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln at the Mount Rushmore Memorial, designed in 1927 with the approval of Republican President Calvin Coolidge.

Harding nominated him to serve on the Lincoln Memorial Commission in 1921, and then to a more lucrative position on the Federal Coal Commission in 1922 ; Marshall resigned from both commissions in 1923.

* April 9 – African-American singer Marian Anderson performs before 75, 000 people at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C., after having been denied the use both of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution, and of a public high school by the federally controlled District of Columbia.

* August 28 – Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his I Have A Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250, 000, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

* February 12 – In Washington, D. C. the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.

* May 30 – In Washington, D. C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.

Lincoln Memorial where Abraham Lincoln is said to have selected Council Bluffs as the eastern terminus after visiting this site in 1859 under the employ of Thomas C. Durant.

In 1857, Durant hired private citizen Abraham Lincoln to represent the M & M in litigation brought by steamboat operators to dismantle Government Bridge, the first bridge across the Mississippi River.

The Port Authority also operates Hudson River crossings, including the Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel, and George Washington Bridge connecting New Jersey with Manhattan, and three crossings that connect New Jersey with Staten Island.

Other facilities managed by the Port Authority include the George Washington Bridge, the Lincoln Tunnel, and the Holland Tunnel, which all connect Manhattan and Northern New Jersey ; the Goethals Bridge, the Bayonne Bridge, and the Outerbridge Crossing which connect Staten Island and New Jersey.

Some of the most famous PWA projects are the Triborough Bridge and the Lincoln Tunnel in New York City, the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state, the longest continuous sidewalk in the world along 6½ miles of Bayshore Blvd.

Many of their episodes occurred on the Lincoln Highway, including almost losing their brakes coming down off Donner Pass, barely squeezing across the narrow Lyons-Fulton Bridge over the Mississippi River, and getting stopped at the Holland Tunnel because trailers weren't allowed through.

The most startling plan, the government charged, was to set off five bombs in 10 minutes, blowing up the United Nations, the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington Bridge and a federal building housing the FBI.

* High Bridge, Lincoln built in the 12th century in Lincoln, England is the oldest bridge in the United Kingdom which still has buildings on it.

Approximately half of the residents in Glen Ridge own 2 cars which allows them to access the New Jersey Turnpike, Newark Airport, the George Washington Bridge, and the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels through major roads such as Interstate 80, Route 46, and Route 3, Interstate 280, Garden State Parkway and Route 21.

The Lincoln Highway, US Route 30, traverses North Versailles and on its western border crosses the Turtle Creek valley via the George Westinghouse Bridge into East Pittsburgh.

Wilmerding is bordered by Monroeville to the northeast, Wall to the east, East McKeesport to the south, North Versailles Township to the southwest, and Turtle Creek, via Greensburg Pike / Lincoln Highway Bridge, to the northwest.

New Jersey Transit provides bus service to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan on the 148 ( on Route 208 ), 164 and 196 ( also on 208 ) bus lines, service to the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal on the 175, and local service on the 722 ( on Lincoln Avenue ) and 746 bus lines.

Although the present head of navigation is at Tongue End, there is evidence that lighters capable of carrying 15 tons used to navigate to Kate's Bridge, where the Lincoln to Peterborough turnpike road crossed the river, and there are the remains of moorings at Greatford Hall, although navigation to there must have ceased after Kate's Bridge was rebuilt.

Sheffield to Lincoln Central via Darnall, Woodhouse, Kiverton Park / Bridge, Shireoaks, Worksop, Retford, Gainsborough Lea Road, Saxilby & Lincoln Central.

Navigation through Lincoln and on to Boston was hampered by the shallow draught available under the medieval High Bridge, just below Brayford Pool.

There is a roundabout, where the road rejoins the old route, for Burton, and Burton Waters Marina, then the road enters the borough of Lincoln at the bend in the road to the left before Bishop Bridge ( over Catchwater Drain and Main Drain ) and meets the A46 Lincoln Bypass at a roundabout.

The M180 motorway is a short but major () motorway in England from junction 5 on the M18 motorway in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster to a point close to Humberside Airport some from the ports of Immingham and Grimsby and the east coast and provides access for major routes to Cleethorpes, Grimsby, Hull ( via the Humber Bridge ), Immingham, Lincoln, Scunthorpe and also provides major access for Humberside Airport and the Killingholme Oil Refineries.

Wilson's drunkenness also led to a scandal in 1980 when an eyewitness reported that Wilson's Lincoln Continental hit a Mazda in a hit-and-run accident on the Washington DC's Key Bridge the night before his first trip to Pakistan.

The museum building occupies an elevated site in Lincoln Park in the northwest of the city, with views over the Golden Gate Bridge.

The Legion of Honor displays a collection spanning more than 6, 000 years of ancient and European art and houses the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts in a neoclassical building overlooking Lincoln Park and the Golden Gate Bridge.