Courtesy of State Historical Society of Iowa, “The Lincoln Highway Iowa Map Pack: A Great Iowa Tour," 1994
Description
This is an excerpt from a document that included the original mapped route of the Lincoln Highway. It also includes information about the different significant stops, photos and advertisements from the early years of the highway.
Transcript of Excerpts from "The Lincoln Highway Iowa Map Pack: A Great Iowa Tour"
Source-Dependent Questions
- What do the historic photos and advertisements from this document tell you about the history of the Lincoln Highway, as well as the culture and people of that time period in Iowa?
- Read the insert about Tama, Iowa, from 1924 on pg. 16. Based on what you have learned from other documents, why would this advertisement have attracted people to stop along the Lincoln Highway?
- How does the map on pg. 15 provide the reader some history about the highway as it went through Benton County, Iowa?