The City of Decatur was chosen as the site for the 1860 Republican State Convention with Abraham Lincoln as the most prominent Republican present. As the convention delegates were beginning to take their first, formal balloting, Richard . . . — — Map (db m56912) HM
The second day of the 1860 Illinois State Republican Convention, May 10th, arrived bright and sunny. While many of the events that would mark this Convention occurred on May 9th, including the Railsplitter demonstration, May 10th would . . . — — Map (db m183841) HM
16th, President of the United States
Born: February 12, 1809, Hodgenville, Kentucky
Assassinated: April 15, 1865, Washington D. C.
Presidential Term: March 4, 1861 - April 15, 1865
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
My concern is not whether God is on our . . . — — Map (db m195623) HM
Abraham Lincoln spoke here on August 31, 1858. (sic) In the course of his famous campaign against Stephen A. Douglas, for the United States Senatorship. — — Map (db m144483) HM
"Drive the Locomotive through our land, and you will have business, activity, prosperity, and mettle." -Benjamin Godfrey
In 1834, a group of visionaries in Springfield, Illinois, led by Abraham Lincoln, proposed laying railroad tracks . . . — — Map (db m144836) HM
Rich in heritage and haunted by history, many threads of our nation's past can be discovered here in Alton.
Located at the confluence of the Mississippi, Illinois, and Missouri rivers, Alton is one of America's great river towns. It was . . . — — Map (db m133286) HM
Elijah Parish Lovejoy was the first pastor of Upper Alton Presbyterian Church, now College Avenue Presbyterian Church. A minister, teacher, newspaper editor, and martyr to free speech and the abolition of slavery, he was fatally shot on Nov. 7, . . . — — Map (db m142159) HM
Theodore Roosevelt Letter On Cuba
On January 22, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt wrote to Secretary of War William Howard Taft rejecting the idea of a protectorate over Cuba and expressing his determination that the United States should . . . — — Map (db m169581) HM
Considered by many to be the first casualty of the Civil War, abolitionist editor and Presbyterian minister Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy was killed defending the freedom of the press.
Editor of the St. Louis Observer, Lovejoy wrote . . . — — Map (db m133295) HM
The seventh and last debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the 1858 U.S. Senatorial Campaign was held at this site on October 15. Approximately five thousand people gathered in front of the old City Hall to hear the two . . . — — Map (db m154153) HM
The two life-like statues represent a monumental event in our nation's history—the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
For a decade, the Illinois U.S. Senate seat was held by Stephen A. Douglas, one of the most famous politicians of his time. . . . — — Map (db m133288) HM
The stately house down the block once housed the co-author of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the freehonorable alike in what we give and what we . . . — — Map (db m133291) HM
Lincoln made frequent legal and political trips to Alton putting him in the heart of Alton history.
For nearly twenty-five years before becoming president, Lincoln was a general practice attorney, representing clients in a variety of . . . — — Map (db m133290) HM
The Franklin House hotel served as Lincoln's debate headquarters and reception area during the final debate.
In 1858, great debates were staged for the public with carnival-like appeal. People came from across Illinois and nearby states to . . . — — Map (db m164649) HM
On this spot Abraham Lincoln spoke to the Citizens of Bath, as he campaigned for the United States Senate. Taking a Bible from his pocket, he read: Mark 3-25 ”A house divided against itself cannot stand ” and so began his historic . . . — — Map (db m129220) HM
Abraham Lincoln with Maj. John T. Stuart arrived at this point by canoe on his way home to New Salem during the latter part of July 1832 when he was returning from the Black Hawk War — — Map (db m267914) HM
This mound was the site of major campaign addresses by Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas during their campaign for U.S. Senate in 1858. Music, fireworks, banners, and parades characterized the campaign. After firing a cannon to assemble a crowd . . . — — Map (db m267911) HM
Welcome to Rockwell
At first glance, Rockwell Park seems like just another place to pass the time of day, have a picnic, or where children can play when they're not swimming in the Havana Park District pool. Rockwell Park also has a place in . . . — — Map (db m267906) HM
Lincoln Photograph. Abraham Lincoln visited the city of Macomb twice in 1858. His first visit lasted from August 25th to August 26th, and it was unexpected. The Randolph House was the place that attracted Abraham Lincoln to Macomb. Lincoln . . . — — Map (db m59987) HM
This building was in earlier times the Randolph House. During the campaign of 1858 Abraham Lincoln was a guest here on at least two separate occasions, August 25 and October 25. — — Map (db m62285) HM
Built in 1857, William H. Randolph opened this magnificent hotel with an elegance unknown at the time.
Abraham Lincoln was a guest on two occasions, August 25th and October 25th, 1858. Both during his senatorial campaign, rivaling Stephen . . . — — Map (db m62286) HM
Abraham Lincoln addressed the people of McDonough County on this spot October 26, 1858.
Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
We here highly resolve that . . . — — Map (db m229619) HM
On two separate occasions during his campaign for Illinois Senate in 1858, Abraham Lincoln spoke to the citizens of Macomb and McDonough County on these very grounds.
First on August 25th, to a packed courtroom inside the Courthouse that once . . . — — Map (db m229618) HM
Married Ward Hill Lamon Mar. 17, 1850
The 8th circuit court and the members including the Honorable Judge David Davis and Abraham Lincoln, future president of the United States of America gathered here at the burial site of Angeline Turner . . . — — Map (db m160308) HM
"My line of defense is going to be that your tongue is no slanderer...that the people generally know you to be, impulsive and say things that you do not mean, and they do not consider what you say as slander," was Lincoln's defense of . . . — — Map (db m57379) HM
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Route 66, the Mother Road, is an American icon that symbolizes romance and freedom of the open road. Born in 1926, Route 66 was one of the first numbered U.S. highways, journeying 2,500 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles. Today, . . . — — Map (db m158214) HM
David Davis swapped for the farm just east of here with Normal's founder Jesse Fell. Davis forgiving Fell's debts. Judge Davis was a friend of attorney Abraham Lincoln and the two of them rode the 8th Judicial circuit together, holding court from . . . — — Map (db m57560) HM
This Victorian Mansion was the home of Judge David Davis, an associate of Abraham Lincoln's.
Construction began in 1870 and was completed in 1872. The house is built of yellow hard-burned face brick with stone quoins in the corners. It is 64 . . . — — Map (db m12249) HM
Family Patriarch
Asahel Gridley
04/21/1810 - 01/20/1881
Banker, lawyer, politician, merchant, and first millionaire in McLean County.
The town of Gridley is named for him.
Gridley was once sued for slander and hired Abraham Lincoln . . . — — Map (db m160311) HM
"I am now free to make an engagement for the road; and if you think fit you may 'count me in,'" wrote Lincoln to Illinois Central Railroad attorney Mason Brayman in October 1853. In 1851, the Illinois Central Railroad charter had . . . — — Map (db m57561) HM
A rustic on his first visit to the circus is how John W. Baddeley, an English immigrant farmer described Abraham Lincoln on his first visit to the McLean County Courthouse as a young attorney in the summer of 1837. Lincoln was wearing . . . — — Map (db m12362) HM
From 1837 to 1860, Abraham Lincoln practiced law in a courthouse on this site.
Its front wall is marked by the brass bar below. — — Map (db m294193) HM
"His love of wealth was very weak....he said he had no capacity whatever for speculation and never attempted it." So said attorney friend Joseph Gillespie who once asked Lincoln how much land he owned and why he had never speculated in . . . — — Map (db m57559) HM
Major's Hall Erected 1852 by William Trabue Major Razed 1959
Illinois Republican Party born in Major's Hall I have supposed myself since the organization of the Republican Party at Bloomington, in May 1856, . . . — — Map (db m221641) HM
A National Register of Historic Places SiteHere, in the 1840s attorneys of the old Eighth Judicial Circuit would gather. In the upper rooms Abraham Lincoln, David Davis, Asahel Gridley and others forged their ideals which fifteen years later were . . . — — Map (db m57453) HM
"...If they believe...Vandeventer pointed the gun at Swartz and advanced upon him, merely to intimidate Swartz.... so that he could get to kill the dog, and with no intention of him, or otherwise hurting him with the gun, that was no assault . . . — — Map (db m57454) HM
The frame house (left) that once stood on the site of this Victorian mansion was the home of Abraham Lincolns trusted friend, legal associate, and political manager, David Davis (1815-1886). The two-story structure closely resembled Lincolns . . . — — Map (db m12263) HM
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places 1983
Located on the third floor of the Crothers and Chew Building was a facility known as Center Hall, where on April 6, Lincoln gave his address "Inventions and Discoveries." Hoping to . . . — — Map (db m162816) HM
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places 1983
The Dewenter's building has been the site of commercial and professional activity since 1856. Dewenter's, a men's clothing store, was in business here from 1870 to 1988. The building . . . — — Map (db m162819) HM
"I look upon that enactment not as a 'law,' but as 'violence' from the beginning. It was conceived in violence, passed in violence, is maintained in violence, and is being executed in violence. I say it was 'conceived' in violence, because . . . — — Map (db m57456) HM
"Why if that one is named Democrat, I will name this one Whig," Lincoln said to John Ewing the proprietor. Such was Lincoln's affection for the family of John Ewing, who ran the hotel in the 1840's. John had nicknamed one of his sons . . . — — Map (db m57550) HM
"Herewith is a little sketch...there is not much of it...I suppose, that there is not much of me." Lincoln thus fulfilled Jesse Fell's 1858 request for an autobiography. Catching Lincoln as he emerged from the courthouse, Fell invited . . . — — Map (db m57553) HM
"While I am writing speakers are addressing the people from the portico of the Pike House." Thus wrote the correspondent of the Chicago Democrat Press on the morning of May 29, 1856. The Anti-Nebraska Convention was scheduled to . . . — — Map (db m57556) HM
"I am in a little trouble here---I am trying to get a decree for our 'Billy the Barber' for the conveyance of certain town lots sold to him by Allin Gridley and Prickett...." Lincoln explained that "Billy will blame me, if I do not . . . — — Map (db m57558) HM
Ulysses & Rosie
Ulysses S. Grant was famous for his love of horses. He also had more pets in the White House than any other president, including a gamecock, a parrot, several dogs, and a multitude of horses and ponies. But if you wandered . . . — — Map (db m294090) HM
The first settlement in this area in 1822 was called Keg Grove. By the time a post office was established in 1829 the settlement was known as Blooming Grove. McLean County was organized the following year and Bloomington, which was laid out in . . . — — Map (db m157176) HM
Thanks to the foresight and generosity of Abraham Lincoln's McLean County friends, Jesse W. Fell, David Davis, and others, the Illinois State Board of Education located the first state-supported university near the junction of the Illinois . . . — — Map (db m183699) HM
I have been East, Lincoln as far as Boston, and up into New Hampshire, travelling in all the New England States, save Maine; in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana; and everywhere I . . . — — Map (db m253451) HM
Abraham Lincoln's Survey of the Sangamo Town Athens Road Relocation
Beginning January 1, 1834, New Salem was to receive mail on a new schedule. The Stage was to leave Springfield each Saturday at 4:00 am for the Warren Court House in . . . — — Map (db m78609) HM
Abraham Lincoln visited the town of Athens on numerous occasions in the 1830s and 1840s. By then, Athens had become a thriving community - since its first settlement in 1819. Initially, Lincoln's first visits were just north of town, to the home . . . — — Map (db m267029) HM
After moving to Springfield, Abraham Lincoln would visit the Petersburg area and stay overnight at the Menard House. When Lincoln was on the Judicial Circuit, he traveled from court to court, often sleeping at the local hotel or tavern. . . . — — Map (db m57373) HM
Abraham Lincoln surveyed the town of Petersburg certifying his plat on February 17,1836, five days after his 27th birthday. At the time he was still living in New Salem. He later surveyed several additions to the Petersburg plat. Though . . . — — Map (db m57371) HM
Abraham Lincoln laid out the original sixty blocks of Petersburg, Illinois between November 1835 and February 1836. In 1832, Peter Lukins and George Warburton had laid out a few lots for a new town. Lukins and Warburton played a card . . . — — Map (db m57348) HM
William F. Berry, 1811 - 1835, is buried two miles west in the cemetery of Rock Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church. His father, the Rev. John M. Berry, founded the church in 1822. Abraham Lincoln and Berry were partners in a store at New Salem in . . . — — Map (db m78614) HM
"I think I may say that he was my scholar and I was his teacher." At New Salem, Lincoln read Graham's books and in 1833 studied grammar and surveying. Teacher in Kentucky and Illinois more than fifty years, Graham died in South Dakota. In 1933 his . . . — — Map (db m124185) HM
Abraham Lincoln visited Mercer County on at least two occasions. On May
7 and 8, 1832, at the onset of the Black Hawk War, Captain Lincoln led his
company of Illinois militia northeast from Oquawka to the Rock River at
Milan through Mercer . . . — — Map (db m230129) HM
William R. Morrison, destined to be elected a Colonel during the American Civil War, was of Scotch-Irish descent, born on September 14, 1824. Although raised on a farm, upon his father's remarriage following the death of William's mother, they . . . — — Map (db m136540) HM
The Illinois State Register in Springfield on September 4, 1840, reported that Lincoln arrived in Waterloo on Sunday, August 23, 1840. A notice was posted at the courthouse Monday morning, August 24, that Lincoln would address the people on . . . — — Map (db m219660) HM
"Ahh, it's good to be here with my friends. That was a long trip. Do I hear music?"
Abraham Lincoln has just arrived on Courthouse Square and is stretching to get the kinks out of his back after traveling by train from Mattoon and by buggy from . . . — — Map (db m188661) HM
While in Hillsboro, Lincoln often visited his good friends, Joseph and Jane Eccles - affectionately known as "Uncle Joe" and "Aunt Jane" - at their home on the corner of Berry and East Water streets. The Eccles couple visited President and Mrs. . . . — — Map (db m281212) HM
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In 1913, Carl Fisher proposed the "Coast-to-Coast Rock Highway". Eager to put America on wheels, executives from automobile and tire manufacturers quickly joined in the effort. At the inaugural meeting on July 1, 1913, the newly elected President, . . . — — Map (db m302900) HM
This early fountain was made in 1914-1915 when Lincoln Highway Fountains were placed in several towns. (Creston included) The fountain in Creston stood across the street on the sidewalk in front of the Fogleman Building where John Luxton's . . . — — Map (db m303125) HM
Abraham Lincoln was a guest in this house, August 15-17, 1856. His host was Zenas Aplington, founder of Polo. On Saturday, August 16, John D. Campbell and James W. Carpenter, who were law partners in Polo, joined Lincoln and Aplington in a drive by . . . — — Map (db m55803) HM
In the early 1830s pioneer traffic moving north from Peoria crowded primitive trails and forced a direct route to Galena. In 1833, Levi Warners state survey marked the Galena Road. It cut through this schoolyard. Private Abraham Lincoln passed . . . — — Map (db m55795) HM
In memory of the Illinois volunteers who fell at Stillman's Run, May 14, 1832, in an engagement with Black Hawk and his warriors.
Captain John G. Adams
Sergeant John Walters
Corporal James Milton
Private Isaac Perkins
Private Joseph . . . — — Map (db m131319) HM WM
Nance Legins-Costley is known to history as the first enslaved person
Abraham Lincoln helped free. She was born in 1813 into indentured
servitude in Kaskaskia, Illinois Territory, to slaves Randol and Annachy
Legins. In 1827 in Springfield, . . . — — Map (db m239256) HM
Bryant Cottage was built in 1856 by Francis E. Bryant (1818 - 1889), a friend and political ally of Senator Stephen A. Douglas. According to Bryant family tradition, on the evening of July 29, 1858, Douglas and Abraham Lincoln conferred in the . . . — — Map (db m23899) HM
Lincoln wrote Douglas on July 24, 1858, challenging him “to divide time and address the same audiences” during the campaign. The Senator suggested seven locations, adding, “I will confer with you at the earliest . . . — — Map (db m23858) HM
A pocket watch is meant to be used with a chain. Three styles were popular: T-bar, which slips through a vest buttonhole; spring ring, which attaches to a belt loop; and fob. Lincolns pocket watch shown here has a shorter style chain, featuring . . . — — Map (db m23889) HM
The Tenbrook Hotel, the building shown on the right-hand side of the photo (which was taken at the end of the Civil War), was the site where Lincoln and other members of the bar lodged when traversing the Eighth Judicial Circuit. Lincoln . . . — — Map (db m23855) HM
Lincolns journeys to Monticello were sometimes difficult because of the weather and his lack of popularity on some issues.
Lincoln, Judge David Davis, and other members of the Bar were trying to reach Monticello in the spring of 1852, having . . . — — Map (db m23813) HM
The I.C.R.R. Co. Steam locomotive was popular in the mid 1850's, when Lincoln worked for the Illinois Central. It was named American Standard, and latter ran from Decatur to Champaign. Locomotives were originally wood burning, and the railroad . . . — — Map (db m23808) HM
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