Railsplitter Covered Wagon - Lincoln, IL
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N 40° 08.916 W 089° 23.238
16T E 296653 N 4446982
A large Abe Lincoln sits on an equally large covered wagon reading a book. #1 roadside attraction in America according to June/July 2010 Reader's Digest!
Waymark Code: WMCMCA
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 09/20/2011
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Continued from the RA website: "The wagon looks real; Abe is a bit of a stretch."
Address: 1750 5th St., Lincoln, IL
Directions: I-55 exit 126, east to Lincoln Pkwy/Route 66, then south a quarter-mile. On the right, in front of the Best Western.
From Silly America (
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"A 350-pound, 12-foot tall statue of Abraham Lincoln reads a law book while sitting upon a large-covered wagon in the only town in the United States named for and by Abraham Lincoln before he became president: Lincoln, Illinois. The Railsplitter Covered Wagon that he sits on is the The World’s Largest Covered Wagon. The 40-foot long, 12-foot wide, 24-foot tall wagon Weighs five tons, the wagon is officially recognized as being the largest by the Guinness Book of World Records."
From Route 66 Pulse at (
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"The wagon was build by David Bentley, of Pawnee, in 2001 as he was recovering from heart disease. Bentley, a former Illinois State Police officer, told the Decatur Herald & Review that after open heart surgery, he became consumed with making something big and memorable. “I figured Abraham Lincoln was a pretty big guy, and so why not put him in the world’s largest covered wagon? It took me about six months to get it done,” Bentley told the Herald & Review.
Link from GBoWR (
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You can't & shouldn't miss it!