Abraham Lincoln first publicly challenged U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas's "Nebraska Bill" during a Whig county convention August 26, 1854, in the Scott County courtroom located at this site. Because the bill allowed for the expansion of slavery, . . . — — Map (db m182043) HM
Southeast Missouri was where Ulysses S. Grant, the nation's eighteenth president, began his rise to prominence as a soldier. This story began in mid-August, 1861, at Ironton, Missouri, 70 miles west of Cape Girardeau via Missouri Highway 72. Grant . . . — — Map (db m261479) HM
This stone marks the western line of the Clark (Illinois) Grant containing 150,000 acres given by the State of Virginia, April, 1784, to General George Rogers Clark, his Officers, and Soldiers as a gratuity for the conquest of the Northwest . . . — — Map (db m194189) HM
Originated in 1852. The
original frame building
was erected in 1853 and is
now the vestry, moved to
Walnut Grove Pioneer
Village in 1985. — — Map (db m230351) HM
Murphy's Inn
The foundation before you is all that remains of the stone house and inn built by Richard G. Murphy around 1858. At that time, this property was situated at the crossroads of major river and stagecoach transportation routes. . . . — — Map (db m264193) HM
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