The farm at this corner was once owned by J.E. Moss, a Civil War veteran who lost his left foot in the Battle of Mission Ridge. When the Lincoln Highway was paved in 1924, Moss erected two monuments out of his support for the highway and admiration for Abraham Lincoln. Moss believed that fast 1924 cars should travel on rounded corners rather than the square corners used by 1913 cars. During the 1924 paving of the road, he offered to donate the extra land needed for a curve if he could place these monuments honoring Lincoln and himself. Greene County accepted the offer, and the result became the first 50 mph curve in the county. Other counties soon followed that example. The Lincoln busts atop the monuments were broken off by vandals in the 1960s, but they were later replaced. On August 27, 2004, J.E. Moss's grandchildren Jonathan Fletcher, age 86, and Susan Thomas Belden, age 77, took part in the unveiling of the restored Moss and Abraham Lincoln Highway monuments.