Bucyrus, OH: Sinclair and Texaco Gas Stations on Original 1913 Lincoln Highway Route

Sinclair: (Satellite)

Texaco: (Satellite)

Lincoln Highway Overview

Sinclair Gas Station

Street View, Aug 2016

I went back and checked, the pay telephone booth on the right side of the above 2016 view did not exist in 2024.

Street View, Jun 2024

Brian Butko posted in Lincoln Highway
From Jeff Blair for use in our 2013 Lincoln Highway centennial book of photos, here is Carl’s Gas Station & Fifties Memories, a loving recreation of a vintage service station east of Bucyrus, Ohio, on Hopley Avenue, the original 1913 LH route.

Thom Swigart, May 2023

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Texaco Gas Station

Becky Osbun posted
1940s: Spiegel’s Texaco, at the corner of N. Poplar and W. Mansfield Streets in Bucyrus, Ohio. A typical gas station, found along the former Lincoln Highway, now U.S. Route 30*. - courtesy Crawford County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society

Randal Weigler: Well, that's old Route 30, now Business 30.

New Route 30 completely bypasses Bucyrus today.

Street View, Jan 2023

Both

It is always interesting to see how the route of US-30 changed over the past century. Given that the Sinclair station was on the southeast side of the town, I tried to figure out how it went through town to end up by the Texaco station which is in the northwest part of town. Google maps indicates that US-30 used to stay on Mansfield Street through town. The Sinclair station indicates that originally the 1913 route used today's OH-19 to go East.

Satellite

The red lines between OH-19 and Mansfield Street is probably the original Lincoln Highway route.

Note that the route that uses Mansfield Street to the East is marked 30N. The N is added to distinguish this new route from the original US-30 route that used today's OH-19.

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