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Markers
 Early
highway marker were constructed with a variety of methods: Metal Signs,
Painted Fence Posts & Telephone poles, and everything else in between.
While initially this was
considered progress, very soon it began to look like a "Barber Pole".
This concerned Lincoln Highway Officials and soon thereafter they devised a
plan to standardize signage on the Highway.
It was both an expensive
proposition and a logistical nightmare. Right Arrows, Left Arrows, 30 miles
to Omaha, 200 Miles to Salt Lake, not to mention vandals, thieves, and
target shooters.
 Each year they put up
literally thousand and thousands of signs only to come back the next year
and find 30 to 50 percent missing or damaged.
Then in 1928 as the
days of the named Highways came to an end, The Lincoln Highway Association
working with Boy Scouts came up with a daring plan. To place 3400
Concrete Markers
across the country and secure The Lincoln Highway as a Living and Perpetual
Memorial to the Great Abraham Lincoln-All in one Day.
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for more information]
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