{"id":3543,"date":"2013-06-30T10:15:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T15:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2013-07-08T00:33:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T05:33:32","slug":"lincoln-highway-in-benton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/06\/lincoln-highway-in-benton-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Highway in Benton County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3545\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/LHBenton_preston.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/LHBenton_preston.jpg 900w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/LHBenton_preston-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><em><strong>November 29, 2002<\/strong> (open picture in new tab for larger version)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The George Preston station in Belle Plaine is one of Iowa&#8217;s best-known Lincoln Highway landmarks. He tacked up signs for just about anything road-related, or that you&#8217;d buy on the road. When I took pictures at the station in 2002, I had the luck of meeting his son, Ron, who had carried on his father&#8217;s legacy. Ron died in 2011, and much of the memorabilia the two had collected <a href=\"http:\/\/thegazette.com\/2012\/08\/08\/preston-memorabilia-up-for-auction-at-belle-plaine-station\/\">was auctioned in 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The garage looks a little different now, with signs for IA 21, IA 131, US 30, and Iowa Scenic Byway on the doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 29, 2002 (open picture in new tab for larger version) The George Preston station in Belle Plaine is one of Iowa&#8217;s best-known Lincoln Highway landmarks. He tacked up signs for just about anything road-related, or that you&#8217;d buy on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/06\/lincoln-highway-in-benton-county\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous","category-sequences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3588,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions\/3588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}