Blog: Byway Buzz
Festivals, Meskwaki, and more
Summer is here! Let the festivals begin. My first taste of a Lincoln Highway festival was at the Tama-Toledo Lincoln Highway Bridge Park Festival on May 15th. The park is really looking nice with...
Getting to Know the Lincoln Highway Heritage Byway
The past two weeks have been a whirlwind of getting to know the Byway. John Mazzello, the Corridor Management Plan project coordinator, and I have been traveling the across the state holding public...
Lincoln Highway Heritage Byway Corridor Management Planning
This spring, the Lincoln Highway Heritage Byway’s Corridor Management Planning process moves forward into the Lincoln Highway’s many communities. We are holding a series of public meetings to...
Conservation Innovation Grant
The Iowa League of RC&DS received a Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) and a REAP Conservation Education Grant to create two interpretive panels for each Iowa Byway describing an employed...
The Lincoln Highway Heritage Byway
The Lincoln Highway Byway is just a part of the Iowa Byway program (www.iowabyways.org). There are eleven in total. Two are National Byways and nine are state Byways. The two National ones are the...
Traveling the Lincoln Highway Byway
I live just off the Lincoln Highway Byway and travel on it daily. But how well do I know this important piece of history? There was this new invention- the automobile- being produced and auto makers...
Lincoln Highway Heritage Byway: Year in Review
By John Mazzello, Project Coordinator With 2014 nearly in the rear-view mirror and 2015 starting to appear in the headlights, now is a good time to take a look back at the Lincoln Highway’s 101st...
Lincoln Highway’s Corridor Management Plan
As you may know, Prairie Rivers of Iowa manages the Lincoln Highway Heritage Byway, one of 11 byways in Iowa (a byway is a road specially designated by the United States or by the State of Iowa for...