2008 Year in Review

Now at Morrison's Heritage Museum

Grove Street in Morrison

Grove Street - West from Orange Street, Morrison

Grove Street - View from Unionville

Lincoln Highway Display

A new Lincoln Highway display can now be seen at Morrison's Heritage Museum. It has come to Morrison from DeKalb, IL, and will be in the museum until October when it will be moved to Sterling. The display has been put together and made available for display around Illinois by the Lincoln Highway Association at Bellevue, IL.

Grove Street – Lincolnway

In 1914 the Morrison Commercial Club appointed a committee to mark the Lincoln Highway route through Morrison and joining towns. They had agreed to paint every other telephone pole along the route from about one mile west of Sterling, through Morrison, and on west to the bluffs. They were painted with the Lincoln Highway sign, red, white and blue stripes around the poles with the letter “L”.

In July 1919, the War Department had planned a crossing the continent by motor transport train, from Washington D.C. to San Francisco, CA. on the Lincoln Highway. The motor train was three miles long. It passed through Morrison about the 10th of July, and a great group of people assembled on the streets to watch the U.S. Army Auto Train. Considerable excitement was created among the crowd when a riderless government motorcycle appeared on Lincoln Way. Miraculously, it avoided all cars parked along the street and struck a curb in front of the city hall. Among the men on this motor transport train, was a young officer named, Dwight David Eisenhower.

The display may be seen every Friday through Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. Morrison's Heritage Museum is located at 202 East Lincolnway, Morrison.

by  Editor, theCity1.com
August 8, 2008