A unique re-enactment is set to take part on the Lincoln Highway in August.

Lincoln Highway Heritage Byway Coordinator Jan Gammon says the Military Vehicle Preservation Association will re-enact the military convoy that traveled on the Lincoln Highway during World War I. It is the 100th anniversary of the event, which then U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Dwight D. Eisenhower led. Gammon points out that the experience of having military personnel travel from Washington D.C. to California gave Eisenhower the idea of the interstate system. 

Gammon notes that the convoy will travel the same route they did in 1919. It will start in Washington D.C. on August 11th and will arrive in Iowa beginning August 22nd. By August 24th, the convoy will travel through Greene County, stopping in the evening in Jefferson before continuing their way across the country on the Lincoln Highway. She encourages everyone to see them come through.

“The Lincoln Highway Heritage Byway hopes that Greene County residents come out and support the Military Vehicle Preservation Association with their re-enactment of the 1919 convoy. It will be quite a sight with 50-70 vehicles traveling across the nation and across Iowa.”

Gammon says another vintage vehicle show that will come through Greene County is with the Lincoln Highway Association in September.