Dedicated by a grateful community to honor those valiant men and women who gave themselves in service and sacrifice for God and Country — — Map (db m137165) WM
Ulysses S. Grant, as colonel of the 21st Infantry Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, left Camp Yates (at Springfield) on July 3, 1861, with his unseasoned troops and marched them to Naples which they reached on July 6. Frederick Grant, the colonel’s . . . — — Map (db m144862) HM
On this spot in the upper room of the old court house in August 1854, Abraham Lincoln made his first speech on the Kansas Nebraska Question — — Map (db m182046) HM
Taught his first school and began his legal career here in 1833-34 His last words were tell my children to obey the laws and support the Constitution — — Map (db m182045) HM
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
