Lincoln Highway Centennial Auto Tour at Haines Shoe House
The 100th Anniversary Lincoln Highway Auto Tour began at 7:00 AM in Times Square, New York City on Saturday June 22nd. The first night stopover was near Malvern, PA. The vehicles passed through York County on Sunday, the second day of the auto tour as they travel west on the Lincoln Highway.
This is a photo of a 1918 Dodge Brothers Army Staff Touring Car participating in the Lincoln Highway Centennial Auto Tour. The car is parked along Shoe House Road in Hellam Township. The Haines Shoe House was the auto tour’s Sunday picnic lunch stop in York County.
The Shoe House was built on an elevated knoll in the York Valley. When built, one had a clear view of the Shoe House, across open fields, from the Lincoln Highway; now Route 462.
Related posts include:
- Walking the Lincoln Highway from Coast-to-Coast
- Uncovering Stories of Lincoln Highway marker sites
- The Big Hand Tourist Camp in Stony Brook
- York was in danger of losing the Lincoln Highway during 1914
- Haines Shoe House will be a June 23rd Lunch Stop on 100th Anniversary Lincoln Highway Auto Tour
- Wrightsville’s Lincoln Highway Garage with a Movie Theatre
- Haines Building on North George Street
- Mahlon Haines’ Hotel endures on North George Street
- D. E. Stetler, J. Horace Rudy & the Dodge Brothers Emblem
- Mahlon Haines runs for Congress in 1922
- 20 York Businesses that Built the Haines Shoe House
- ROAD OF REMEMBRANCE Memorial in Paradise Township, York County
- Mystery Ice Cream Bar along the Lincoln Highway
- Melvin’s Drive-In, Lincoln Highway Ice Cream Bar; I-83 Opens
- St. Joseph reports on John F. Kennedy in York, PA
- Lincoln Woods Inn; Mystery of the Medallions
- Bussing horses to 1955 Race Track built near the Shoe House
- LoPiccolo’s in Violet Hill connection to The Woods in Springettsbury Township
- 1906 York Automobile Owners form York Motor Club; their Club House still stands
- Motels & Restaurants named via the Lincoln Highway; Lincoln View in Paradise Township, York County
- Stony Brook Garage on the Lincoln Highway
- 23¢ per gallon at York’s Only Gasoline Shopping Center
From an April 15th press release of the Lincoln Highway Association on Centennial Celebration events:
As part of the official celebration, two automobile tours will depart from New York City on June 22 and Lincoln Park in San Francisco on June 23. They will follow the original Lincoln Highway route to Kearney, Nebraska, arriving on June 30. The tour groups include participants from Canada, England, Germany, Norway and Russia. In addition those from Lincoln Highway states (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and California), participants include cars from Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Washington.
The auto tours have a total of 270 people traveling in 140 vehicles. The City of Kearney, Nebraska is hosting a two-day Centennial Celebration beginning June 30 with the arrival of the Centennial Auto Tours. The second day of the celebration in Kearney coincides with the exact centennial of the Lincoln Highway Association. This association was formed on July 1, 1913 to both promote the road and fund the project.
During 1913, many city streets were paved but most rural roads were still dirt. The Lincoln Highway Association was formed with a plan to link already paved roads by improving strategic dirt roads throughout the country. The association engaged more in planning and fund-raising than in actual road construction. The Lincoln Highway was actually completed in 1926, becoming the first fully paved route across the United States.
This illustration is explained in the post Walking the Lincoln Highway from Coast-to-Coast.
Also of interest is my March post on how I discovered the Haines Shoe House will be a June 23rd Lunch Stop on 100th Anniversary Lincoln Highway Auto Tour.
Again quoting from an April 15th press release of the Lincoln Highway Association on Centennial Celebration events:
The Lincoln Highway, begun in 1913, was the first transcontinental highway in the United States. It was the idea of Indianapolis Motor Speedway founder Carl Fisher, who, with help from industrialists Frank Seiberling (president of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.) and Henry B. Joy (president of Packard Motor Co.), envisioned an improved road stretching 3380 miles from New York City to San Francisco. Fisher established the Lincoln Highway Association on July 1, 1913 to both promote the road and fund the project.
Since Henry B. Joy, the President of Packard Motor Company was one of the earliest promoters of the Lincoln Highway; I’ve decided close this post with two photos of a 1932 Packard Model 903 4-Door Convertible Sedan participating in the Lincoln Highway Centennial Auto Tour. The car is shown parked along Shoe House Road in Hellam Township (2013 Photos, S. H. Smith)
