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Legendary Locals of Peoria

Peoria harkens back to the 1670s glory days of the French voyageurs and became the now-familiar face of Americana—its townsfolk have touched every aspect of national and international life, often significantly. In comedy, Fibber McGee and Molly, Charles Correll, Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, and even Bishop Sheen with his witty homilies have made Peoria the “Habitat of Humor.” Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique jump-started the 1960s feminist movement, while Philip José Farmer’s The Lovers rocked the 1950s sci-fi universe. Dr. C.T. Vivian, Dr. Romeo Garrett, and John Gwynn Jr. held the frontline against racism. Representing the best of society’s core values, Barb and Dick Hammond founded Friends of the Children of Haiti, a medical organization tending to the year-round needs of the earth’s poorest. And unheralded Bill Noel has shouldered the sorrows and burdens of others who have leaned on him for decades. When it comes to all the legendary locals, they play in Peoria . . . and the world.

Of Cows, Cat, and a Quest Glen Barton (born 1939) grew up on a farm in Alton,
Missouri, a Grant Wood–esque American Gothic town, with a population of 576.
Growing up, he helped his grandfather, two older brothers, and older sister
around the farm while his father worked at the post office. During the “o-dark-thirty
” daily cow milkings, he daydreamed of owning a dairy with automatic milkers. He
graduated valedictorian of his high school class in 1942, which was something of
a ...

The Lincoln Highway across Indiana

The Lincoln Highway across Indiana explores Indiana’s unique role in Lincoln Highway history and celebrates Indiana’s place in early automotive and road-building history. Once known as the “Main Street of America,” the Lincoln Highway route was established across northern Indiana in 1913, linking larger cities—Fort Wayne, Elkhart, Goshen, South Bend, LaPorte, and Valparaiso—to smaller communities. Most Lincoln Highway towns renamed their main streets Lincolnway in recognition of the nation’s first coast-to-coast auto road. When the Lincoln Highway Association shortened the route in 1926, the route linked Fort Wayne to Columbia City, Warsaw, and Plymouth, giving the state two Lincoln Highway routes. From Fort Wayne to the famous Ideal Section, between Dyer and Schererville, Indiana’s Lincolnway towns remain proudly connected to Lincoln Highway history. Through vintage photographs, postcards, advertisements, and other historical records, this armchair tour of the highway visits sites favored by early tourists, documents the people and places that made the highway a vital corridor, and celebrates Hoosier Carl Fisher’s leadership in the formation of the Lincoln Highway Association, as well as the people who work to preserve its legacy today.

The Ligonier Lincoln Highway consuls were W. H. Wigton, who built the
Zimmerman Block, and Walter Robinson, who owned the Lincoln Highway
Garage at the turning point of the Lincoln Highway at Cavin and Lincolnway. The
Lincoln Highway Garage was marked with huge logos and served as the control
station. Gas was available at the curb and tuneups were found inside. The
garage crew paid special attention to tourists' needs. (Courtesy of the Ligonier
Historical Society.) ...

Gresham

The history of Gresham, Oregon, is rooted in the pioneers who trekked along the Oregon Trail in the 1800s. Traveling down the Columbia River or over the precipitous route by scenic Mount Hood, they arrived in what was then called Powell Valley, so named by the first settlers. They found trees that were unparalleled, tall, and straight, which they used to build their first communities. The rich, fertile land was cleared to grow an array of crops that would eventually make the area well known for its agriculture.

George R. Miller. The 1914 class of Gresham ... In 1915, that high school district
combined with other high schools in the area—Lynch, Powell Valley, Terry, and
Hillsview—and a total of 25 students graduated. Lynch was west of Gresham,
and ...