On Main Street (Illinois Route 34) west of Walnut Street, on the left when traveling north.
Fluorite, the official Illinois state mineral, was discovered in 1839 by James Anderson while digging a well near Fairview Landing one half mile SW of this site. Fluorite was a waste product until the steel industry began using the mineral in their . . . — — Map (db m154632) HM
Near South Feazel Street just north of Bauman Lane, on the right when traveling north.
This cabin was also known as the Wilson Cabin, the mystery cabin and the Dodd Gibson property. The cabin was built about 1790 on a cliff's edge overlooking the Ohio River at Elizabethtown, Illinois. The site afforded a view of the river more than 10 . . . — — Map (db m146878) HM
Near 45th Street South just south of 15th Avenue South, on the right when traveling south.
The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for learning. Five months before receiving his party's nomination for President, he sketched his life: "I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My . . . — — Map (db m238199) HM
Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin County, Kentucky, February 12, 1809. He moved with his family to Indiana in 1816 and to Illinois in 1830. His first home in Illinois was 8 miles southwest of Decatur. In 1831 he later moved along to New Salem, . . . — — Map (db m157150) HM
Near Union Square W near E 17th Street, on the left when traveling south. Reported permanently removed.
One of three sculptural renditions of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) in New York City’s parks, this larger-than-life bronze by Henry Kirke Brown (1814-1886) stands vigil on a busy crossroads at the north end of Union Square Park. Abraham Lincoln was . . . — — Map (db m41271) HM
Near 68th Street at Beechtree Drive, on the right when traveling south.
The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for learning. Five months before receiving his party's nomination for President, he sketched his life:
"I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My . . . — — Map (db m292004) HM
On Union Square West at East 16th Street, on the right when traveling north on Union Square West.
One of three sculptural renditions of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) in New York City's parks, this bronze larger-than-life sized statue by Henry Kirke Brown (1814-1886) today stands vigil on a busy crossroad at the north side of Union Square Park. . . . — — Map (db m242889) HM
On Main Street north of Locust Street, on the left when traveling south.
James (1776-1837) and Elizabeth (1789-1863) McFarlan was married on January 22, 1806 and arrived in this area about 1810 by way of North Carolina and Tennessee. According to local history, they built the southwest portion of the hotel in 1812. In . . . — — Map (db m303307) HM
On East Dixie Avenue (Kentucky Route 61) at South Crestwood Street, on the left when traveling north on East Dixie Avenue.
"The Parrott gun was placed in the pike; it was opened as soon as the last message from Colonel Smith was received; and, as suddenly as if its flash had ignited them, Palmer's four guns roared out from the hill on the left of the road, about six . . . — — Map (db m170819) HM
The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for learning. Five months before receiving his party's nomination for President, he sketched his life:
"I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, . . . — — Map (db m179399) HM
The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for learning. Five months before receiving his party's nomination for President, he sketched his life.
"I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. . . . — — Map (db m112639) HM
On Main Street (Illinois Route 34) at 2nd Street, on the right when traveling south on Main Street.
William Pell, Jr. settled here in 1832, founded Pell's Landing. In 1874, Pell's Landing was incorporated as Rose Clare and became the City of Rosiclare in 1932. Always an important river town, the discovery of fluorite and other minerals in the . . . — — Map (db m206199) HM
Near West 7th Street just west of Myrtle Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
1 • Mount Vernon Red Maple Planted in honor of the Founders of the City of Sanford, Florida on February 10, 1992. This red maple has been grown from seeds collected at Mount Vernon, President George Washington's beloved home on the . . . — — Map (db m214875) HM
On North Main Street at Plum Alley, on the left when traveling north on North Main Street.
The oldest brick business building in town, built circa 1812/1815 by Major Benjamin Helm, housed the mercantile of Helm and his partners. Businesses in this alley were at one time referred to as 'Green Row.'
The building has been remodeled . . . — — Map (db m208602) HM
On W Dixie Avenue at N. Mulberry Street (U.S. 62), on the left when traveling east on W Dixie Avenue.
Shortly after Thomas and Nancy Lincoln's wedding in Washington County on June 12, 1806, the couple set up housekeeping in Hardin County where Thomas owned a farm near Elizabethtown on Mill Creek. Nancy gave birth to Lincoln's first child, a daughter . . . — — Map (db m249363) HM
On Freeman Lake Park Road at City Street-1197-20 (Route 1197-20) when traveling east on Freeman Lake Park Road.
The Sarah Bush Johnson Lincoln Memorial Cabin was erected in Kentucky's Bicentennial year, 1992, from 122 year-old hand-hewn logs. This 14' x 14' log cabin is a close replica of the one that Johnston was living in at the time she wed Thomas . . . — — Map (db m251077) HM
On Main Street (Illinois Route 34) at 2nd Street, on the right when traveling south on Main Street.
People have been digging, processing and transporting fluorite (fluorspar) here since 1842. In the 1940s, Rosiclare and Hardin County led the U.S. in fluorite production and were known as "The Fluorite Capital of the World".
What is . . . — — Map (db m206198) HM
Near Freeman Lake Park Road at City Street-1197-20, on the left when traveling east.
Christopher Miller Successfully Secures Peace Treaty
In June 1782, Christopher Miller, a boy about twelve or thirteen years old, was taken prisoner by the Shawnee Indians, in the then county of Jefferson, now Nelson county, in . . . — — Map (db m252991) HM
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