After entering Pennsylvania, we left the National Road, and headed up to the Historic Lincoln Highway.
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| 1940 Bennett gas pump as a Roadside Giant (2009, by students of Eastern Westmoreland Career & Technology Center in Latrobe, PA) of the Lincoln Highway, one of five Giants and a Roadside America attraction (KSS) |
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| Lincoln Highway Experience (2011) in the Johnston House (1812-1815), the childhood home of PA Governor William Johnston (KSS) |
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| Lincoln Highway Experience new addition |
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| We started in the Johnston House living room to watch a video |
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| Painting by a local artist of Storyland and the Pied Piper statue at its entrance, which we saw on 10/30/2021 |
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| Pennsylvania license plates over the years |
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| A 1913 license plate of porcelain over iron, with a keystone tag engraved with the vehicle number (VIN) |
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| Then Lieutenant Colonel Dwight Eisenhower participated in the 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy, consisting of 81 Army motorized vehicles traveling from Washington, DC to San Francisco to test the mobility of the military during wartime conditions |
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| Women drivers were recognized, such as Alice Huyler Ramsey (the first woman to drive coast-to-coast, from New York to California in 1909) and writer Emily Post, who did not drive but wrote a travelogue about her own cross-country road trip in 1915 |
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| Psychedelic gas pump |
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| Vintage Lincoln Highway marker |
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| Vincent van Gas gas pump |
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| Mock-up of a Lincoln Highway gas station |
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| Another painted gas pump, and a motel neon sign |
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| Inside a tourist cabin |
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| Copies of casts (1860, by Leonard W Volk) of Abraham Lincoln's hands on the day he won the presidential election; the casts were later studied by Daniel Chester French for his statue of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC |
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| 1937 Packard 120; it was Packard Automobile’s president at the time, Henry B. Joy, also the President of the Lincoln Highway Association, who was instrumental in the development of the Lincoln Highway |
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| 1938 Serro Diner has been meticulously restored |
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| Your admission included a cup of coffee and a slice of pie in the diner! |
Admission also included a postcard for each person, which if you wrote and addressed it there, they would mail it for you.
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| Continuing on the Lincoln Highway/US-30 to Fort Ligonier (1758), which was one of the forts along the road constructed by the Forbes Expedition, on its way to seize Fort Duquesne from the French |
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| Fort Ligonier was decommissioned in 1766, so what we see now is a reconstruction |
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| Ligonier Beach Arch (1925) |
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| When it opened, Ligonier Beach was the largest swimming pool in the world |
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| The pool measured 400'/122 m long by 125'/38 m wide |
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| Another of the Roadside Giants of the Lincoln Highway: Bicycle Built for Two (2009, by students of Eastern Westmoreland Career & Technology Center in Latrobe, PA) (a Roadside America attraction) |
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| Lincoln Highway/US-30 at Stoystown, PA |
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| Trostletown Covered Bridge (1845), a Kingpost Truss bridge with gabled roof, which crosses Stony Creek (a Roadside America attraction) |
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| Stoystown American Legion Veterans Memorial (1987) (a Roadside America attraction) |
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| M-60 Tank |
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| Bell UH-1 Iroquois "Huey" Helicopter |
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| "Flight 93 Abortion Billboard" - is it one or two signs? |
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| Remember Me Rose Garden on property donated by the Families of Flight 93 |
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| The fountain is surrounded by stones marked with the names of those who perished on Flight 93 on 9/11/2001 |
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| The garden is laid out in the shape of a compass rose, but is also planted with 350 Rosa 'Julie Andrews' pink rose bushes |
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| In the background is the cross that was first erected at the actual Flight 93 crash site |
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