American Auto Trail-Lincoln Trail (Wabash River to Sumner IL)

Описание: This travel route explores the old Trace Road, Lincoln Trail, and Midland Trail from outside Vincennes, Indiana, to Sumner, Illinois. Learn some of the history of this section of southeastern Illinois from the days of the bison and Native America to military training in World War II.

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Music Credits:
View of the Valley/Trevor Garrod
Sweet Release/Dan Lebowitz
Waterfall/Aakash Gandhi
Turning Slowly/Ugonna Onyekwe
Ticker/Silent Partner
Flickering/Vyen
Hovering Thoughts/Spence
No. 4 Piano Journey/Esther Abrami
Wishful Thinking/Dan Lebowitz
Chubs/Quincas Moreira
Destination Unknown/Ugonna Onyekwe
Twilight Train/Dan Lebowitz
New Land/ALBIS

Endnotes:
(1) Baltimore and Ohio Railroad https://www.britannica.com/topic/Balt...
(2) Illinois Highways, Volumes 2-4; Illinois State Highway Department, 1915; pg 66-67.
(3) Lincoln National Memorial Highway Committee http://alplm.libraryhost.com/index.ph...
(4) Wilson, George R. (1919). "Early Indiana Trails and Surveys". Indiana Historical Society Publications. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society. 6 (3): 349 and 370. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
(5) Illinois: A Descriptive and Historical Guide; A.C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1939.
(6) Jackson, Marcus “What’s in a name? Embarras River”; The News-Gazette, February 5, 2016. https://www.news-gazette.com/news/wha...
(7) Former Indian Refinery Site https://www.cerc.usgs.gov/orda_docs/C...
(8) White, Mary Tracy. "Historical Notes on Lawrence County, Illinois." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1908-1984) 10, no. 3 (1917): 367-93. Accessed June 14, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/40187017.

Image Credit:
Lincoln Highway Route https://www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org/h...
Lincoln Heritage Trail Sign (Dual Freq / CC BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
B&O Monopoly Card   / jakeeran  
Baltimore & Ohio Logo https://fineartamerica.com/featured/l...
Road Names and Distinctive Symbols http://exhibits.museum.state.il.us/ex...
Trace near Lawrenceville https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41167...
“Don’t give up that ship” https://art.thewalters.org/detail/309...
Captain James Lawrence Tomb https://collections.mcny.org/CS.aspx?...
Aeroplane View of Indian Refinery https://www.lawrencelore.org/
The Prophet https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en....
Tecumseh https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.c...
Plank Road School Sept 1899 http://lawrencelore.blogspot.com/2012...