Bourland Jolly (a.k.a. Boling Jolley) (1766-1844) born in Dinwiddie County, Virginia where he enlisted in the VA. Militia in 1781. He was enlisted by a Captain Connelly and later served under a Col. Lucas at the Siege of Yorktown. After . . . — — Map (db m292353) HM WM
Abraham Lincoln and incumbent Stephen A. Douglas spent ten weeks in 1858, contesting for the U.S. Senate. During the grueling campaign, Lincoln made sixty-three speeches across the state; Douglas made 130. Both men spoke separately in . . . — — Map (db m57637) HM
The 51 known and all others buried in Morgan County Illinois
George Angel William Armstrong Ebenezer Barr Phillip Boulware
Benjamin Butch Dennis Coker Ancil Cox Peyton Cunningham Bernard Dawson
Col. Rising Dewey Joseph C. . . . — — Map (db m287390) WM
A leading figure of the 19th-century "Stone-Campbell" Restoration movement, Barton Warren Stone owned and lived on this farm from 1838 to 1844. Stone advocated the unity of all Christians, served as an educator and church planter, and published . . . — — Map (db m149893) HM
"I have discovered the machine I want to design and build, a portable 'Ferris Wheel'", W. E. Sullivan, 1893.
A young man's dream became reality when W. E. Sullivan of Roodhouse, Illinois, designed and built a small, portable, revolving wheel, . . . — — Map (db m57658) HM
This 4.5" Siege Rifle was originally
placed in Central Park on March 28, 1900
Registry Number 50 of 113
★ No. 50 - 3564 lbs. - CPK ★
Fort Pitt, PA - 1862
Special thanks to
City of . . . — — Map (db m287404) WM
In memory of the men whose stalwart patriotism
and willing sacrifice preserved the Union and
abolished slavery
This monument is erected in grateful remembrance
by the Citizens of Morgan County Dedicated 1920
"The . . . — — Map (db m287437) WM
Oldest college dormitory in
continuous use in State of Illinois
Named for Rufus C. Crampton
Professor of Mathematics 1853 - 88
Acting President 1876 - 82
Centennial Celebration 1973 — — Map (db m287354) HM
Miss Dorothea Dix in her "memorial to the Senate and House of the Representatives of Illinois" urged their serious consideration of the afflicted condition of an increasing class of insane sufferers, whose healthful exercise of their intellectual . . . — — Map (db m149907) HM
Fourscore 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 . . . — — Map (db m287383) HM WM
G.V. Black, father of modern dentistry, was born in 1836 on a farm near Winchester, Illinois. He studied medicine and dentistry and in 1857 began his practice of dentistry in Winchester. After serving in the Civil War, he resumed dental practice in . . . — — Map (db m57631) HM
Dental Office 1868-1867
2nd floor, Lot 58, This Square
Dental Office 1867-1876
2nd floor, Lot 121, This Square
At these locations, Dr. Black constructed the belt-driven dental drill and began work on the formula for dental . . . — — Map (db m187249) HM
Since 1856, Beecher Hall has been the headquarters of two of Illinois College men's societies. Sigma Pi Society and Phi Alpha Society. Both societies elected Abraham Lincoln into honorary membership in their fraternal-literary . . . — — Map (db m57657) HM
Son of Rev. Dr. Ozel Roe,
of Woodbridge N.J.
left New York for the West
Oct. 15, 1819,
settled in Diamond Grove
in Feb. 1820,
died Oct. 12, 1821
Aged 48 yrs.
An emigration society organized
in the City of New . . . — — Map (db m295004) HM
This tablet honors the memory of
Jonathan Baldwin Turner
Professor of English at Illinois College, Great Citizen of Illinois, who in February, 1852, first publicly proposed federal aid for a national system of agricultural and industrial . . . — — Map (db m287345) HM
Abraham Lincoln won his elected office, a seat in the Illinois House of Representatives in 1834. That same year Joseph Duncan of Jacksonville was elected Governor of Illinois. Before you stands the home of Joseph Duncan, which became the . . . — — Map (db m241999) HM
Abraham Lincoln met Benjamin H. Grierson when the two campaigned for the Republican Party. Grierson, a merchant, music teacher, and musician, even wrote a song for Lincoln's presidential campaign in 1860, with the chorus: "So clear . . . — — Map (db m57635) HM
Abraham Lincoln met the Reverend James F. Jaquess when Lincoln was a lawyer on the Eighth Judicial Circuit and Jaquess rode the Petersburg Circuit for the Methodist Church. They became better acquainted in Jacksonville when Jaquess was . . . — — Map (db m57630) HM
Pictured in the crowd listening to Abraham Lincoln's speech is Joseph O. King, a prominent merchant who later became mayor of Jacksonville. He helped found a political group that agitated for the exclusion of slavery from the free . . . — — Map (db m57653) HM
[Top photo caption reads]
On August 18, 1971, Congressman Paul Findley and Governor Richard Ogilvie looked on as President Richard Nixon signed H.R. 9798 into law at
the Old State Capitol in Springfield.
From 1960 . . . — — Map (db m287328) HM
Abraham Lincoln was often accused by his detractors---and even by some of his friends---of not being a Christian. Just before becoming President, Lincoln shared the following with his friend Dr. Newton Bateman: "I know there is a God, . . . — — Map (db m57648) HM
MacMurray College was founded as Illinois Conference Female Academy in
1846 by Methodist preachers. It became Illinois Woman's College in 1899 before
acquiring its final name in 1930. MacMurray College was a major presence in
Jacksonville for 174 . . . — — Map (db m229609) HM
In Memory of Victims
Drunk Driving Crashes
April 23, 1990
April 15, 1991
April 27, 1992
April 24, 1995
April 18, 1997
April 19, 1999
April 28, 2001
April 6, 2003
In Remembrance
10th Anniversary of
Kentucky Bus Crash . . . — — Map (db m294293) HM
Dedicated in memory of
Ronald L. Black Eugene Couturiaux Jr. Robert L. Dodsworth
Ronald W. Gulley Samuel N Hart Dale A. Lash Steven R. Lowe
Robert R. Lynn Robert McMahon Charles W Sanders
Steven R Wagstaff Robert L Watts . . . — — Map (db m294291) WM
New Method Book Bindery (Bound to Stay Bound Books since 1970) was established at 220 S. Main, Jacksonville, Illinois, in January 1920 by Lawrence D. Sibert and William Suhy. The bindery quickly became one of the nation's leading library binders, . . . — — Map (db m181714) HM
First pastor of the
1st. Presbyterian Church.
Founder of the Jacksonville Female Academy
who with his wife Frances C. Ellis, opened
the school in the Spring of 1829 in his own
house, untill the Spring of 1833, secured
the . . . — — Map (db m287318) HM
The following three patriots are interred in Section OP. Lots 26. 106, and 214.
ELIJAH SMITH
Born on August 12, 1755, near Trenton, Hunterdon County. New Jersey. Died March 11, 1836 at age 80 in Illinois. Enlisted the first time in 1776 . . . — — Map (db m287414) HM WM
Ishmail Bobbitt Constantine Clarkson Martin Burris Joseph Jackson
Samuel Jackson Bourland Jolly James Jordan Lawrence Killebrub
Edward Moody David McPeeters John Robertson Elisha Smith
William Scott . . . — — Map (db m287385) WM
Stephen A. Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont, in 1813. He attended schools there and in New York state. In 1833, he settled in Winchester, Illinois, five miles southwest, where he taught school. In 1834 he moved to Jacksonville, eight miles . . . — — Map (db m182098) HM
Richard Yates moved from Kentucky to Jacksonville in 1831. Four years later he became the first graduate of Illinois College. Abraham Lincoln and Yates admired Henry Clay and actively supported the Whig Party. Both strongly opposed . . . — — Map (db m57633) HM
The site of the Farmers State Bank and Trust Company Building, formerly known as the Ayers National Bank Building, has been associated with banking longer than any other site in the State of Illinois and possibly the entire Old Northwest.
By . . . — — Map (db m149896) HM
In memory of the students and members of the greater I. S. D. family
(1845-1895) buried here or elsewhere*.
[Engraving of original building]
Adams, S.* Ammons, T. Andres, E. Asbell, C. Bayles, M. Boothroid, A.
Brauer, . . . — — Map (db m287266) HM
Jacksonville's first courthouse on the Square was a primitive structure built in 1826. It burned down on December 6, 1827. The second Morgan County courthouse played a significant role and was located on the southwest corner of the town square. . . . — — Map (db m287396) HM
Dedicated Nov. 11, 1968 to the
men and women of Morgan County who
offered their lives that liberty might live
In memory of
Clarence G. Eggenberger — — Map (db m287327) WM
A native of Kentucky, John J. Hardin moved to Jacksonville in 1831 when he was twenty-one. Like other young men of their generation. Hardin and Abraham Lincoln served in the Black Hawk War. Both men were lawyers and Whig politicians who . . . — — Map (db m57634) HM
On this site on July 4th, 1883, distinguished American William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) began his practice of law and journey to national prominence. The forthright, spirited Bryan would become a Congressman from Nebraska, three-time Democratic . . . — — Map (db m149914) HM
Declaration of Independence
United States Constitution
Bill of Rights
Gifted by Mary Jo (Cody) Patterson (JHS 1971)
and Vance Patterson (EHS 1968)
Burke County, North Carolina
to the Citizens of Morgan County
on May 30, 2015 . . . — — Map (db m287446) HM
[F]ounder of Prairie Land Heritage Museum Institute,
along with all the hard working
members who continue to make the
Prairie Land Heritage Museum
Institute possible.
EST. 1969 — — Map (db m287324) HM
The Jacksonville Bandstand is one of two built in 1878-79 on the grounds of the
Jacksonville Developmental Center (more commonly known as the Jacksonville State
Hospital). Identified as the east bandstand on the property, it was used in the . . . — — Map (db m287326) HM
Dedicated to the honor and sacrifice of the men and women of Waverly community who served in the Armed forces of the United States — — Map (db m291895) WM
Dedicated to a grateful community to honor those valiant men and women who gave themselves in service and sacrifice for God and Country. — — Map (db m291947) WM
