{"id":15048,"date":"2023-07-31T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15048"},"modified":"2023-07-30T23:36:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T04:36:25","slug":"100th-anniversary-of-reed-niland-corner-in-colo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/07\/100th-anniversary-of-reed-niland-corner-in-colo\/","title":{"rendered":"100th anniversary of Reed-Niland corner in Colo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15074\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ColoMotel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ColoMotel.jpg 640w, https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ColoMotel-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>July 5, 2013:<\/strong> The Colo Motel at the Reed-Niland corner.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 1923, a Colo farmer began a gas station at the east junction of the Lincoln and Jefferson highways. The station, which expanded to include a restaurant and lodging, thrived for decades. In the past 30 years operations at the cafe have been off and on, but they are currently on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prrcd.org\/celebrating-100-years-of-the-reed-niland-corner-on-the-lincoln-highway-in-iowa\/\">Prairie Rivers of Iowa has an article<\/a> chronicling the history of the corner, its ownership, and its place in Iowa and national highway history. The corner was the site of the <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/06\/an-important-meeting-lincoln-highway-history\/\">first grade-separated intersection in Iowa<\/a>\u00a0as the Jefferson Highway, later US 65, joined\/left the Lincoln Highway here.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/2516101611874026\">there will be a 100th anniversary celebration<\/a>. There will be live bands and food will be served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 5, 2013: The Colo Motel at the Reed-Niland corner. In 1923, a Colo farmer began a gas station at the east junction of the Lincoln and Jefferson highways. The station, which expanded to include a restaurant and lodging, thrived &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/07\/100th-anniversary-of-reed-niland-corner-in-colo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15075,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15048\/revisions\/15075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}