The following Press Release was received this week at Preservation Ohio:

The Ohio Lincoln Highway has brought back some "Fun Things to Do Along the Lincoln Highway" as prizes for the upcoming winners of another Buy-Way yard sale scavenger hunt-- to be played during this year's BUY-WAY Yard Sale.

For the third year, participants will travel and shop the BUY-WAY and find some common, inexpensive items; photograph them and submit them for the chance to win a first, second or third prize; each prize package consisting of an overnight stay, restaurant and retail gift certificates, free passes to museums, and more...all along the Lincoln Highway in Ohio.

A list of items to "scavenge" will be available on the byway's website, www.historicbyway.com, on Wednesday, August 5 just prior to the opening of the sales on the morning of the 6th.

This fun three-day shopping and touring event, August 6, 7 and 8, will showcase America's first coast-to-coast highway. The "Lincoln" was created by private efforts in 1913 to demonstrate that building paved automobile roads were needed for the country's growing auto trade. The Lincoln Highway was built by improving existing roads and connecting them together for "the shortest and safest" path from New York to San Francisco.

The state-designated historic byway's director, Mike Hocker, suggests as many as 750 group and individual sales will appear again this year across all alignments of the original Lincoln Highway in Ohio, and in Chester and Newell, West Virginia as well as parts of Indiana.

A free BUY-WAY travelers guide is available at www.historicbyway.com under the header, "YARD SALE." General information may be obtained at 419-468-6773.

Photo: Courtesy of Ohio Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor