The 1928 Lincoln Highway in Indiana: Eastern Indiana

When the Lincoln Highway Association rerouted the Lincoln Highway between Fort Wayne and Valparaiso in Indiana in 1928, they simply moved it to US 30. This isn’t the US 30 that exists today. That US 30 is a four-lane expressway across the entire state, built in sections from about 1939 to about 1990. In most places, the original US 30 remains as a series of county roads. That’s a good thing for Lincoln Highway fans, as modern US 30 is heavily used across the state. Old US 30 is often a quiet, lonely road. Map data ©2026 Google. Lincoln Highway data ©2012-26 Lincoln Highway Association. The 1928 Lincoln Highway’s westbound journey begins in northwest Fort Wayne where it makes a hard left away from the 1913 alignment. In the map above, the 1913 alignment is in blue, and the 1928 alignment is in red. Here’s what the beginning of this alignment looks like: a nondescript road. Soon it becomes a standard two-lane Indiana highway. After a while, it becomes a standard Indiana county road. But…