Come and enjoy a hearty breakfast in Rolling Prairie,
Indiana!
Then
set out for a fun filled day of
geocaching!
It's at a great place
called
Jennie
Rae's!
This is a historic restaurant
which has had many names and has been here since the building of
the Historic Lincoln Highway. It's now Jennie Rae's and it's a
member of the
Indiana Lincoln Highway Association
What is the Lincoln
Highway?
Well it was conceived in
1912
and formally dedicated October 31, 1913,
the Lincoln Highway was
America's first national memorial to President Abraham
Lincoln,
predating the 1922 dedication of the
Lincoln Memorial in Washington
D.C. by 9 years. As the first automobile road
across America, theLincoln Highway brought great
prosperity to the hundreds of cities,
towns and villages along the way. Affectionately, the Lincoln
Highway became known as
"The Main Street Across America".
The Lincoln Highway was the
first road across the United States of America. Actively
promoted
by entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, the Lincoln Highway
originally
spanned coast-to-coast from Times Square in New York City to
Lincoln Park in San Francisco through 13 states: New York,
New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa,
Nebraska,
Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and California. In 1915, the
"Colorado Loop" was removed,
and in 1928, a realignment relocated
the Lincoln Highway through the northern tip of West
Virginia.
Thus, there are a total of 14 states, 128 counties,
and over 700cities, towns and villages
through which the highway passed at
sometime in its history.
The first officially recorded
mileage for the entire Lincoln Highway was 3389 miles in 1913. Over
the years, the road was improved
and numerous realignments were
made. By 1924, the Lincoln Highway had been shortened to 3142
miles. Counting the original route and all of the subsequent
realignments, there is a grand total
of 5869 miles.
Event Details:
Time:
7:00 am - 9:00 am* central
time
*Note: Jennie Rae's is open at 5:30 am
central
time for the VERY early birds!
8:30 am -
8:45 am central time- Door
Prizes!
8:45 am central time the new caches will be
handed out (not before~promise!) so enjoy a hearty breakfast
first.
It is planned to have at least 50 new
and unpublished caches available for all to seek that day, so there
will be many chances for FTFs and the prizes that go with
them!
Note:
When posting your "Will Attend" if you can please
give some idea of how many in your
group. It will help a lot with the planning.
Thanks!