On 1790 East west of 1740 East, on the right when traveling south.
The road on which this bridge is located was once an important route between Springfield and Effingham. The bridge was completed in the autumn of 1868 at a cost of $2,500 and named for the owner of the first mill near here. It is the narrowest of . . . — — Map (db m188395) HM
On South Main Street south of East Main Street, on the right when traveling south.
Left Section In 1863, Ohio Governor David Tod believed that Lincoln needed a cavalry body-guard. Governor Tod requested one volunteer from each county in Ohio to serve on special duty. Guernsey County, in east-central Ohio supplied Ephraim . . . — — Map (db m30751) HM
On West Cherry Street west of South Plum Street, in the median.
This is the site of the Moweaqua Coal Mine Disaster which on December 24, 1932, took the lives of all 54 miners entering the mine that day. The Moweaqua Coal Mine was Shelby County's largest. An unprecedented drop in barometric pressure allowed . . . — — Map (db m55619) HM
On East Main Street west of South Washington Street, on the right when traveling west.
Sculptor John McClarey is a former Illinois high school history teacher with an international reputation as an artistic interpreter of Abraham Lincoln. He has won many prestigious awards for his work, including the Order of Lincoln in 2009. His . . . — — Map (db m30897) HM
On Main Street at Washington Street, on the left when traveling west on Main Street.
Abraham Lincoln
traveled this way as he rode the Circuit of the Eighth Judicial District ···1847 - 1857
Smaller Plaque:
Presented to the Kuilka Chapter D. A. R. by O. J. Penwell — — Map (db m11295) HM
On East Main Street (Illinois Route 16) east of Washington Street, on the right when traveling west.
Left Section
Anthony Thornton and Abraham Lincoln led fairly similar lives. Both were born in Kentucky, were tall, and were Whigs.
Both began practicing law in Illinois in 1836, even though Thornton was college-educated and read . . . — — Map (db m30755) HM
On East Main Street at South Washington Street, on the left when traveling west on East Main Street.
In the Shelbyville area during the Spring of 1929, Raymore McDonald designed and developed the first commercial pick-up baler as conceived and financed by Horace Tallman and his sons, Leslie R. and Gentry L.
These balers were marketed for many . . . — — Map (db m10992) HM
On East Main Street at South Washington Street, on the left when traveling west on East Main Street.
May this site of "Freedom Square" be an eternal remembrance of those Shelby County Veterans who served and sacrificed that all people might live in a world of peace and freedom.
[Left of the inscription, etching of General MacArthur walking . . . — — Map (db m80914) HM
On East Main Street (Illinois Route 16) west of South Washington Street, on the right when traveling west.
Left Section
In the summer of 1856, Abraham Lincoln traveled across much of Illinois, giving speeches supporting the new Republican Party and its national and state candidates. On August 9, 1856, Lincoln arrived in Shelbyville to . . . — — Map (db m30801) HM
On East Main Street (Illinois Route 16) at Broadway Street, on the right when traveling east on East Main Street.
Abraham Lincoln visited Shelby County to argue law cases during his journeys around the Eighth Judicial Circuit.
Although Shelby County comprised a part of the circuit in the 1840's, Lincoln would forego visiting Shelbyville in favor of . . . — — Map (db m188365) HM
On Main Street (Illinois Route 16) at Washington Street, on the left when traveling east on Main Street.
Larger Marker
Here
Abraham Lincoln
and
Anthony Thornton
June 15, 1856
debated for and against
Freedom
in our territories.
It was the initial speech that made
Lincoln President
and
The Great . . . — — Map (db m11294) HM
On South Broadway Street south of West Main Street (Illinois Route 16), on the right when traveling south.
In a woodshed located at the rear of this site in 1886
Mrs. Josephine Garis Cochran
Invented one of the first mechanical dishwashers ever built. She exhibited her patented machines at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, winning . . . — — Map (db m188364) HM
On East Main Street (Illinois Route 16) west of Washington Street, on the right when traveling west.
In memory and in honor of the soldiers of the American Revolution buried in Shelby County Illinois
Elijah Biggs • John Cochran • John Jenkins • Obadiah Wade • Isaac Waggoner — — Map (db m189058) WM
On East Main Street at South Washington Street, on the left when traveling west on East Main Street.
On the Pillar
1776 - 1781
1812 - 1814
1846 - 1848
1861 - 1865
1898 - 1898
On the Base
Erected in
1907
in memory of the
Soldiers and Sailors
of
Shelby County
Individual . . . — — Map (db m11131) WM
On East Main Street, on the right when traveling west.
Left Section
Taverns - - or Inns - - were the primary accommodation for the circuit traveler. Before arriving in Shelbyville, the judge and lawyers had a two-day journey from Paris, usually with an overnight stay in Charleston. Abraham . . . — — Map (db m30784) HM
On Church Street at Park Street, on the left when traveling south on Church Street.
Sigel
American Legion
Post 1134
To those who gave all —
We honor and pray for eternal rest.
To those who are missing in action —
We express remembrance and hope.
To those who were wounded in action —
We . . . — — Map (db m158716) WM
On Commercial Street at Cedar Street, on the right when traveling east on Commercial Street.
Left Section
Abraham Lincoln handled at least 147 divorce cases during his twenty-five years as a lawyer. One in Shelby County also concerned the ownership of land. William Stewardson and Mary Jane Dawson, both English immigrants, . . . — — Map (db m30805) HM
On Locust Street north of Commercial Street, on the left when traveling north.
Center Panel
Strasburg Veterans Memorial
All Gave Some
+
Some Gave All
(Seals of United States Branches of Military)
* Killed In Action
Left Panel
* * * Revolutionary War * * *
John Jenkins • . . . — — Map (db m31021) WM
