Lincoln Highway Centennial Celebration Rolls Through Kingston

Celebrate the centennial of the Lincoln Highway, America's first transcontinental road today. 

The Lincoln Highway Association Centennial Tour is stopping for lunch in Kingston on its way across the country between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., automobiles of the Lincoln Highway era will be on display at several locations in the village. In addition, a display of photographs and information about the Lincoln Highway is on view at the Kingston Locktender’s House, open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday through August.

About 92 tour participants (in about 50 cars) are expected. The cars will not come all at once, but rather in small groups of one to six cars. Automobiles participating in the tour to Nebraska must be capable of 55 mph and many are not “vintage” Lincoln Highway era vehicles.

The tour is expected to begin arriving in Kingston, where it will stop for lunch, around 11 a.m.; some participants will merely pick up their lunch and go, but most are expected to linger for a while, and be on the way to Pennsylvania by 3 p.m. 

The Lincoln Highway Association in partnership with the Kingston Historical Society (KHS) and Eno Terra Restaurant will be providing lunch to the tour participants.  There are also several other places to purchase food in the village of Kingston.  

Most of the cars in the tour will not be those from the Lincoln Highway Era (generally considered to be from 1913 to before World War II), so KHS decided to provide an opportunity for the display of antique and classic cars for the benefit of the tour participants and the public at large.  

One car, a 1914 Model ‘T’ Ford, will be positioned in front of the Eno Terra restaurant. Other cars will be displayed at the parking lots of the two service stations that were in operation in Kingston during the Lincoln Highway period, as well in the immediate vicinity of the Kingston Lock-tender’s House, where KHS has its headquarters.