The inspiration for the Dixon Lincoln Highway Interpretive Mural was taken from a July 22, 1919  Dixon Evening Telegraph newspaper story that read, “ An Army Convoy is traveling the United States’ only transcontinental highway, the Lincoln Highway, to test the reliability of military vehicles. A last-minute volunteer for this trip is a young lieutenant colonel named Dwight D. Eisenhower. Stopping in Dixon today, the convoy parked 65 vehicles around the courthouse square while 235 officers and men sat on the lawn and ate a lunch prepared by the citizens of Dixon.”