Visit the Highway News page for information about the Laurel Highlands Trout Trail or http://www.lhtrouttrail.com/ .
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Join us Saturday, May 19 for our 4th annual An Affair with Lincoln gala. We'll gather at the Lincoln Highway Experience near the Kingston Dam in Latrobe. Enjoy tapas, desserts and spirits while you explore each room of our new home. You will also have the opportunity to bid on special Lincoln Highway Experiences as well as old world crafts and paintings. Tickets can be purchased by calling the LHHC office at 724-879-4241 or visiting http://www.lhhc.org/giftshopdetail.asp?prodID=3 to order using Paypal. For those coming a distance, lodging specials for Saturday, May 19, 2012 are available at the Inn at Mountain View, 300 Scenery Lane, Greensburg, PA 15601, http://www.theinnatmtview.com/ ,724-691-0570 for $86 + tax and at Ramada of Ligonier, Route 30 East, Ligonier, PA 15658, http://www.ramadaligonier.com/ ,724-238-9545 for $86 + tax. Make sure you mention An Affair with Lincoln.
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On Thursday May 24 at 7 p.m. Dave Stubbs will present “All Pumped Up!” The program will provide an insider look at the painstaking process of restoring the antique gasoline pumps that once populated our nation’s filling stations. Click here to order tickets via Paypal: http://www.lhhc.org/giftshopdetail.asp?prodID=400 .Read more about the program here: http://www.lhhc.org/news.asp .
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In the early 20th century, Carl Fisher and Henry Joy had a dream of having a road that would traverse the country. Their enthusiasm spread, and the Lincoln Highway became a reality in 1913. Unprecedented travel, growth and commerce from New York City to San Francisco followed. Good roads, filling stations, roadside dining, and basic lodging were paramount. With automobile travel on the upswing, postcard and souvenirs were must-haves.
Eighty years later, dozens of non-profit organizations, municipalities, and business owners along a 200-mile, six-county region of the Lincoln Highway in south-central Pennsylvania, had a vision of utilizing the historic Lincoln Highway as the unifying element for a heritage area – the Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor (LHHC). In 1995, former Governor Tom Ridge designated this region as an official heritage area, with the intent of increasing economic development through tourism. The LHHC is one of twelve special heritage areas in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, collectively known as "Heritage PA," which are committed to improving operations, marketing, government relations and public advocacy for all of Pennsylvania's Heritage Areas. The mission of the not-for-profit LHHC is to identify, conserve, promote and interpret the cultural, historic, natural, recreational, and economic resources along the Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania’s Westmoreland, Somerset, Bedford, Fulton, Franklin, and Adams counties.
The LHHC has designed and published several helpful publications, including a 70-page Driving Guide, which takes motorists on the original alignments of the old Lincoln Highway, and points out interesting stops along the way. In addition to this Guide, more than 100 other Lincoln Highway-related items are available in our Gift Shop (click above tab). Friends of the Lincoln Highway receive a 10% on all purchases.
Enjoy your journey on the Lincoln Highway, and remember to "Keep Thinkin' Lincoln!"
