{"id":8875,"date":"2017-06-21T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8875"},"modified":"2017-06-26T12:22:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T17:22:43","slug":"lincoln-highway-jefferson-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/06\/lincoln-highway-jefferson-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Highway: Jefferson, Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8877\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GreeneCoCthse.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GreeneCoCthse.jpg 580w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GreeneCoCthse-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>May 15, 2011:<\/strong> The Greene County Courthouse, as seen from the Lincoln Highway (above) and looking east on the Lincoln Highway from the Mahanay Memorial Carillon Tower (below).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8876\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GdJctFromBellTower.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GdJctFromBellTower.jpg 350w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GdJctFromBellTower-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Half a century plus one year after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowalivingmagazines.com\/2013\/05\/08\/anchor-of-the-community\/\">Mahanay Memorial bell tower<\/a> was erected in downtown Jefferson, <a href=\"http:\/\/whotv.com\/2017\/05\/26\/jefferson-bell-tower-to-start-ringing-again\/\">the tower&#8217;s bells have been restored to full working order<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Greene County was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowalincolnhighway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GreeneCountyBrochure.pdf\">first county to pave the Lincoln Highway<\/a> in Iowa (PDF). When the US highway system was designated, Greene County had the southernmost paved road in the western third of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln Highway convention tour stops in Jefferson today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 15, 2011: The Greene County Courthouse, as seen from the Lincoln Highway (above) and looking east on the Lincoln Highway from the Mahanay Memorial Carillon Tower (below). Half a century plus one year after the Mahanay Memorial bell tower &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/06\/lincoln-highway-jefferson-iowa\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875","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=8875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8932,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875\/revisions\/8932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}