Lincoln Highways 100th Anniversary-James Allison Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 11/3/2013
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is placed in conjunction with the 100th Aniversary of the Lincoln Highway and the 6th Annual Grand Ol' Highway Event. This series will take you along the 1913 alignment of The Lincoln Highway through La Porte County.

James Allison was Carl Fishers savvy business partner. He was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He invented the Allison Perfection Fountain Pen and with Carl Fisher was a founder of Prest-o-lite, a manufacturer of automobile headlights. With Fisher, Frank H. Wheeler and Arthur C. Newby, he was a founder of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indianapolis 500-mile race. Allison formed the Indianapolis Speedway Team Company, later known as the Allison Experimental Company and later as Allison Engineering Company, which was eventually purchased by General Motors, Becoming the Allison Division of General Motors. Allison died of pneumonia in 1928 at the age of 56 and was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis.
James Allison

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