Dear Jim: In a way you both are right. "The Lincoln Highway" did follow its present route when it was designated the Lincoln Highway. However the original road was blazed across the western half of Pennsylvania by Gen. Forbes. I know that the original, that is, the trees were cut - road built - did come down our Lincoln Way. I say that because the route through White Oak is older because it was "Braddock's Route". Forbes came second and I'm not sure at what point he deviated from Braddock's Road. The Forbes Road through Ft. Bedford, Will's Narrows, Ft. Littleton, Ft. Ligonier. I've heard 2 scenarios. The first is that Braddock went through White Oak because the Turtle Creek Valley was narrow and dark with plenty of places for ambush. It was avoided by Native American and Whites alike. The problem was the technology of the day. It wasn't until they built the Westinghouse Bridge that the valley was spanned. Before that bridge you choices were to go via "McKee's Port", a second route that avoided the steep cliffs at the mouth of Turtle Creek was to go down Route 48 toward Pitcairn. The original Haymaker Rd - was the route across the valley. For years their log cabin sat in disrepair on the right hand side of Route 48 Approx 1/4 mile down from the crest of the hill. I'm not vouching these are absolute facts - part I know to be fact ( Route 30) and part from family stories my parents would tell - there's the old such and such - now that's where - so and so lived. Feel free to send me any questions at WarriorsMk@aol.com that is at home - and I'm more likely to have the information at hand. Marc M. G. Stauffer