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Lincoln City is an unincorporated community in Carter Township, Spencer County in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Indiana. [1] It lies five minutes south of Interstate 64 , northeast of Evansville , and approximately twenty miles north of the Ohio River .
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial is a United States presidential memorial and a National Historic Landmark District in Lincoln City, Indiana. It preserves the farm site where Abraham Lincoln lived with his family from 1816 to 1830. During that time, he grew from a 7-year-old boy to a 21-year-old man.
Lincoln had its start in the year 1852 by the building of the railroad through that territory. [3] It was named for its founder, Theodore Lincoln. [4] A post office was established at Lincoln in 1855, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1953.
Lincoln Highway had two different routes through Indiana, the original route went through South Bend and Elkhart. [1] The Lincoln Highway's northern alignment is now called Lincoln Way and is a byway .
Lincoln Highway shield. The Lincoln Highway was planned in 1913 to run west to east across Indiana, including to South Bend and Fort Wayne. In 1915, the highway opened, passed through downtown Fort Wayne on its route through Indiana, [10] and was assigned the designation of Main Market route number 2 in 1917.
The association's free interactive Official Map of the Lincoln Highway [6] website includes map, terrain, satellite and street-level views of the entire Lincoln Highway and all of its re-alignments, markers, monuments and historic points of interest. Recent additions to the map are the locations of electric vehicle charging stations and RV ...
The Lincoln Highway entered Indiana on current US Route 30 to Fort Wayne. It turned northwest on modern U.S. Route 33 to Elkhart. It turned west on Lincoln Way through South Bend to U.S. Route 20. It followed US Route 20 to Rolling Prairie and continued on State Road 2 to Valparaiso where it rejoined US Route 30 to the Illinois state line.
Lincoln State Park is a state park of Indiana, United States. It is located in southern Indiana in Spencer County approximately 35 miles (56 km) east of Evansville . The park was established in 1932 and encompasses 1,747 acres (707 ha).