Momence in Kankakee County, Illinois — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

Gettysburg Address

November 19, 1863

— 1809 • Abraham Lincoln • 1865 —

Gettysburg Address Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, June 23, 2021

1. Gettysburg Address Marker

Inscription. Click to hear the inscription.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased

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devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Erected 1927 by Worcester Relief Corps, No 111.

Topics and series. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Civil. In addition, it is included in the Former U.S. Presidents: #16 Abraham Lincoln series list. A significant historical date for this entry is November 19, 1863.

Location. 41° 9.792′ N, 87° 39.776′ W. Marker is in Momence, Illinois, in Kankakee County. Memorial is on North Dixie Highway (Illinois Route 1) just north of West Washington Street, on the right when traveling south. Marker is mounted at knee-level, just to the right of the historic First National Bank building entrance. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 103 North Dixie Highway, Momence IL 60954, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Other nearby markers. At least 6 other markers are within 8 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. First National Bank (here, next to this marker); Dixie Highway Connected Chicago to Miami in the Early Days of Automobile Travel (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line); Edward Chipman Public Library

Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, June 23, 2021

2. Gettysburg Address Marker

(about 600 feet away); Hubbard Trail (approx. half a mile away); Walter Andrew and George Hess, Pioneers (approx. 3.7 miles away); McHie Ferry (approx. 7.8 miles away).

Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, June 23, 2021

3. Gettysburg Address Marker

(dedication plaque mounted below marker)
Placed by
the Members of Worcester
Relief Corps, No. 111
Momence, Illinois
November 11, 1927

Historic First National Bank Building (<i>east elevation</i>) image. Click for full size.

Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, June 23, 2021

4. Historic First National Bank Building (east elevation)

(marker visible just to the right of front entrance)

Credits. This page was last revised on July 26, 2021. It was originally submitted on July 25, 2021, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. This page has been viewed 156 times since then and 40 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on July 25, 2021, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.