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Mount Vernon Aerial

200 Block of West First St at least six months after the Feb 1975 fire … Read more …

Lincoln Highway over Chicago Northwestern Railroad

Lincoln highway spanning Chicago northwestern railroad. Automobile traffic barred in the early 1970s. Historic reconstruction … Read more …

Mount Vernon Middle School

Changes in first floor windows and main door. In the Perkins and Will style. Date … Read more …

City Hall

City Hall on Main Street – built in 1988 Picture from the 1990s Date @1990’s

Main Street Demolition

Demolition of 108 First Street SE (new building constructed) (late 1950s?)

Fire Department

Fire district number one housed in city hall (1915). Ralph Shoemaker Second row second from … Read more …

Connecting Mount Vernon and Lisbon

East end bridge. Shows a small section of Mount Vernon’s 1st Street (Main Street) and … Read more …

Home Sweet Home Tourist Court

Home Sweet Home Tourist Court west of Mount Vernon on old Lincoln Highway picture is … Read more …

Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet home Tourist court. Location is 2 miles west of Mount Vernon on the … Read more …

Main Street

Good view of the Wolfe Block before the fire; White building was a total loss. … Read more …

Lisbon

LISBON (Lincoln Highway – late 1920s – early 1930s; Interurban Date @1930

Stearn’s Garage

Located on the South side of 100 block of west First Street. Note: Lincoln logo … Read more …

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Mount Vernon Historic Preservation Commission

2 years ago

The MVHPC partnered with the Linn County Historic Preservation Commission and the Mount Vernon Lisbon Community Development Group on the placement of two new informational kiosks about the history of the Lincoln Hwy in Lisbon and Mount Vernon. There was a commemoration at the Kiosk in Lisbon on Oct. 6 with a poem created for the event by Poet Laureate Amanda Kibbie. The MV Kiosk is located in Prairie Park next to the Cornell football field. The MV kiosk faces one of the last remaining brick portions of the Lincoln Hwy and is near the 10th Avenue Overpass. The overpass was built in approximately 1910 as a part of the Lincoln Hwy. Credit to Steven Ciha of the LCHPC for images. ... See MoreSee Less

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Mount Vernon Historic Preservation Commission

2 years ago

UPDATE!!! Thanks to Jay and Arlie Willems, the circa 1910 glass negatives are now in the Mount Vernon Archives. We are grateful to Arlie and Jay for transporting the negatives and to Joe Burkart of Crestview Florida for donating them.Photo collectors in Crestview Florida have glass plate negatives of a photographer named Hodson who worked in and around Mount Vernon in 1910. The collectors have offered the negatives to the MVHPC. The plates are fragile and very heavy, so shipping them is not a good option. Is anyone planning to travel by car to Florida anytime in the next year and willing pick up these negatives in the panhandle of the state? If so, please send a message on this site to the site administrator. ... See MoreSee Less

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