Lincoln High School

Lincoln High School is the infected-filled school at the end of Bill's Town, where Joel, Ellie and Bill go looking for a military truck's battery. The High School Escape section and a bloater fight in the gym happen here.

Type: Landmark
Region: Lincoln

Found in

LincolnLincoln is a small Massachusetts town a few miles from Boston and the setting of Bill's Town, the fourth chapter. Joel and Ellie come here to call in a favor from Bill, a paranoid survivor who has rigged the whole town with traps, because they need a working vehicle.

Good to know

It is in the Lincoln region, past Bill's graveyard into territory he does not control.
The school closed on October 4, 2013 and then served as Amherst County's temporary quarantine zone.
The gym was a supply staging area and the parking lot a processing area; buses and bags still litter the lot.
Evacuees were split into four groups bound for the Springfield, Woods Hole, Hartford and Boston QZs.
The High School Escape section holds two collectibles: Note from Frank and a crumpled Note from Frank.

Why the truck is there

A military truck sent for supplies was swarmed by infected and crashed into the school. Only the military still made car batteries, so Joel needs the one in that truck to get a vehicle running.

What you do here

The battery is already gone. You fight through the halls to the gymnasium, kill a bloater and a group of runners with Bill and Ellie, and escape to a nearby house.

Who took the batterySpoilerShow

Frank took the battery and used it to fix a pickup in a house nearby. He was bitten in the process and killed himself there, leaving the working truck in the garage for Joel and Ellie.

Related places

Landmark
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
St. Paul's Lutheran Church is Bill's fortified home and armory in Lincoln, and the base you visit in the Safehouse section of Bill's Town. Bill gives Joel a shotgun and nail bombs here before the group heads out through the graveyard.