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Illinois State Historical Society Historical Markers
Markers of the Illinois state historical markers program administered by the Illinois State Historical Society.
By Duane and Tracy Marsteller, May 23, 2020
Carl Sandburg Birthplace Marker
GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| On East 3rd Street east of South Kellogg Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Carl Sandburg, poet and historian, was born in this modest three-room cottage
on January 6, 1878. He was the son of a Swedish immigrant railroad worker. Carl
attended Lombard College in Galesburg, and his first poetry was published in
this town. . . . — — Map (db m150543) HM |
| On South Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | On October 7, 1858, Abraham Lincoln and Stephan A. Douglas met in Galesburg for the fifth of seven joint debates. From a platform erected along the east side of Old Main on the Knox College campus, Lincoln said: "He is blowing out the moral lights . . . — — Map (db m37056) HM |
| On Illinois Route 17 0.6 miles west of Golf Course Road, on the right when traveling east. |
| | In this area stood a Potawatomi village when Michael Fraker arrived from Kentucky about 1830. With kindness and understanding he negotiated a peaceful settlement with the Indians and became the first permanent settler in northeastern Knox County. . . . — — Map (db m150572) HM |
| On Leonard Wood West, on the left when traveling south. |
| | This U.S. Army Post was named after Civil War Cavalry General Philip Sheridan, to honor his many services to Chicago (1868-1883).
The Commercial Club of Chicago, concerned since 1877 with the need for a military garrison, was motivated by the . . . — — Map (db m55515) HM |
| On North Green Bay Road (Illinois Route 131) 0.2 miles north of Armour Drive, on the right when traveling south. |
| | In 1837 William Dwyer, his wife Mary, and her brother, Dr. Richard Murphy, established a claim to the property on this site and created what was known as the Dwyer Settlement. The Dwyer homestead included a tavern and one of the three stage stops . . . — — Map (db m66619) HM |
| On North Saint Mary's Road (County Route 19) 0.5 miles north of West Everett Road (County Route 40), on the right when traveling south. |
| | Adlai Ewing Stevenson – Governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953, twice the Democratic Party nominee for president, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations – Built this residence in 1938. Known as "The Farm," the house, . . . — — Map (db m41247) HM |
| On Sheridan Road (Illinois Route 137) near 10th Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | The Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Company of Worcester, MA. established a wire mill – The Waukegan Works – east of this location along Lake Michigan. The land for its Illinois operation was purchased January 16, 1891, on the . . . — — Map (db m38184) HM |
| On Rockland Road (Illinois Route 176) 0.1 miles east of Energy Drive, on the right when traveling west. |
| | On June 12, 1924, the largest train robbery in U.S. history occurred near here. Bandits boarded the train in Chicago and forced postal clerks to surrender sacks containing more than two-million dollars in securities and cash. Local police . . . — — Map (db m54066) HM |
| On North Old Rand Road south of North Garland Road, on the right when traveling south. |
| | In 1840, Andrew C. Cook and his wife Mary Oakes came to Wauconda Township from Vermont, via the Erie Canal, the Great Lakes to Chicago and then to Wauconda. They purchased 380 acres of land at $1.25 per acre. A log cabin was erected before clearing . . . — — Map (db m54062) HM |
| Near North Sheridan Road 0.2 miles north of Greenwood Avenue. |
| | From 1912 to 1962, Bowen Park was the site of the Joseph T. Bowen Country Club, owned by the Hull-House Association of Chicago. Here, children from many national, racial and religious backgrounds learned to respect each other and the environment. . . . — — Map (db m54019) HM |
| On 5th Street (U.S. 6) west of Crosat Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | The story of the twin cities of LaSalle and Peru is closely interwoven with the history of the Illinois River and the Illinois and Michigan Canal. In 1673, Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet passed through this area by way of the Illinois River . . . — — Map (db m51066) HM |
| On Columbus Street (Illinois Route 71) just south of Lafayette Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | On August 21, 1858, the first of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and United States Senator Stephen A. Douglas took place in this park. Approximately 10,000 people gathered to hear the two candidates discuss the question of slavery in America. . . . — — Map (db m65299) HM |
| On North Bloomington Street (Illinois Route 23) at El Camino Court, on the right when traveling north on North Bloomington Street. |
| | Clyde William Tombaugh was born near Reading (south of Streator) in 1906. He attended Heenanville Grade School and Streator High School and became interested in astronomy at an early age. In 1922 his family moved to Kansas. He built telescopes and . . . — — Map (db m145184) HM |
| On Cahokia Trace Lane (County Road 1120 N) at Red Hill Cross Road (County Road 390 E), on the right when traveling west on Cahokia Trace Lane. |
| | The western boundary of the Vincennes Tract passed through this point. The line extended south-southwest thirty-nine miles from present-day Crawford through Lawrence, Wabash, and Edwards counties in Illinois. The Vincennes Tract was seventy-two . . . — — Map (db m98964) HM |
| On Franklin Grove Road, on the right when traveling west. |
| | On May 12, 1832 Captain Abraham Lincoln's company of Illinois volunteers camped one mile west. Lincoln re-enlisted in two other companies and was frequently in Dixon. Discharged from service near Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, on July 10, Lincoln passed . . . — — Map (db m78300) HM |
| On E 800 North Road (U.S. 24) west of County Road 1200E, on the left when traveling east. |
| | One-half mile north on the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad occured one of the worst wrecks in American rail history. An excursion train- two engines and approximately 20 wooden coaches - from Peoria to Niagara Falls, struck a burning culvert. Of . . . — — Map (db m30042) HM |
| On North 3400 East Road (County Road N 3400E) at County Road E 2900N, on the left when traveling north on North 3400 East Road. |
| | The village of Cardiff was built on this site in 1899, after the discovery of
underground coal deposits. A mine was sunk and a relatively large town developed
within months. The town, originally known as North Campus, incorporated as the
Village . . . — — Map (db m47311) HM |
| On Race Street at SW Arch Street, on the left when traveling north on Race Street. |
| | The Atlanta public library was founded in 1873 by public spirited citizens who realized the importance of books. In 1973, the museum was added for the purpose of preserving Atlanta's heritage. In 1979, this octagonal structure was listed on the . . . — — Map (db m56326) HM |
| On Kennedy Road (County Route 10) 0.2 miles east of Interstate 55, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Elkhart City in Logan County is typical of the many Illinois villages whose growth was spurred by the arrival of the railroad. Founded by John Shockey in 1855, two years after the coming the Alton and Sangamon Railroad, now the Gulf Mobile and Ohio. . . . — — Map (db m159582) HM |
| On North Chicago Street at Broadway Street, on the left when traveling north on North Chicago Street. |
| | Near this site Abraham Lincoln christened the Town with the juice of a watermelon when the first lots were sold on August 27, 1853.
President-Elect Lincoln spoke here, November 21, 1860, while traveling to Chicago, and Lincoln's Funeral Train . . . — — Map (db m12347) HM |
| On 5th Street (Business Interstate 55) at South Madison Street, on the right when traveling east on 5th Street. |
| | On this site Dr. John Deskins erected a tavern in 1836. Abraham Lincoln, David Davis and other lawyers frequently stayed overnight here while the Eighth Judicial Circuit Court was in session at the Postville Court House. The judge, lawyers, . . . — — Map (db m56327) HM |
| On Keokuk Street west of Ottawa Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | On Abraham Lincoln's last birthday, February 12, 1865, ground was broken for Lincoln University, now Lincoln College. The town proprietors, Robert B. Latham, John D. Gillett and Virgil Hickox, donated the tract of land for the original campus, and . . . — — Map (db m105968) HM |
| On Broadway Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | On this site stood two former Logan County Courthouses in which Abraham Lincoln practiced law from 1856 to until elected President. During the March term, 1859, Lincoln substituted for David Davis as the presiding judge of the Logan County Circuit . . . — — Map (db m105970) HM |
| On South Monroe Street north of 5th Street (Business Interstate 55), on the right when traveling west. |
| | From 1839 to 1848 the seat of Logan County was Postville, which centered in the Court House located on this site. In this structure Abraham Lincoln, a member of the Traveling Bar of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, attended Court twice a year. — — Map (db m12185) HM |
| On 5th Street west of South Washington Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | In 1835 Russell Post, a Baltimore adventurer, laid out the town of Postville which became the first Logan County seat. The town square is now Postville Park. Here Abraham Lincoln and his friends played townball a predecessor of baseball, threw the . . . — — Map (db m106028) HM |
| On Latham Place at Kickapoo Street, on the left when traveling west on Latham Place. |
| | On this site stood the home of Robert B. Latham who joined John D. Gillett and Virgil Hickox to found the town of Lincoln in 1853. Abraham Lincoln, judges and lawyers of the eighth judicial circuit were frequent guests in his home. — — Map (db m147790) HM |
| On Decatur Street south of 4th Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | On this site during the senatorial campaign of 1858 Stephen A. Douglas spoke to a Democratic political rally in a circus tent on September 4th. Douglas' opponent for the Senate seat, Abraham Lincoln, was on the train from Bloomington to Springfield . . . — — Map (db m105971) HM |
| On 8th Street at North Union Street, on the right when traveling east on 8th Street. |
| | This internationally known African-American author (1902-1967) acknowledges in his autobiography The Big Sea that he wrote his first poem while attending Central School here in Lincoln. Ethel Welch, his eighth grade teacher, asked him to write the . . . — — Map (db m105976) HM |
| On Broadway Street at South Chicago Street, on the left when traveling west on Broadway Street. |
| | On this site the Town proprietors erected the original Lincoln House in 1854.
Leonard Volk met Abraham Lincoln on the sidewalk in front of the hotel on July 16, 1858, and arranged to make Lincoln's life mask later. — — Map (db m12349) HM |
| On South Maple Street north of 7th Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | The Niebuhr family, called “The Trapp Family of Theology” by Time magazine, produced four distinguished professors of Christian studies. In 1902, the Rev. Gustav and Lydia Niebuhr came to Lincoln, where he became pastor of St. John’s . . . — — Map (db m105975) HM |
| On 9th Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | William Maxwell (1908-2000), author and editor, lived in this home from 1910-1920. He often returned to this home and Lincoln in his novels and short stories. His Midwestern childhood, particularly his mother's death in the Spanish influenza . . . — — Map (db m106025) HM |
| On South Washington Street north of Cooke Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Mt. Pulaski served as the seat of Logan County from 1848 to 1853. The First County Court was at Postville, now part of Lincoln, Illinois.
In 1848 Logan County voters approved the removal of the Court from Postville to Mt. Pulaski. Local citizens . . . — — Map (db m12327) HM |
| On Old Route 36 east of South Lincoln Memorial Parkway (County Highway 27), on the right when traveling east. |
| | From the site of the Lincoln cabin on the Sangamon three miles south of here, to the Wabash River opposite Vincennes, the Lincoln National Memorial Highway follows substantially the route taken by the Lincoln family in their migration from Indiana . . . — — Map (db m55617) HM |
| On Old Route 36 east of South Lincoln Memorial parkway (County Highway 27), on the right when traveling east. |
| | On an eminence overlooking the Sangamon River three miles south of here stood the first home of Lincoln in Illinois. To this site came the Lincoln family in March, 1830. Here they lived until 1831, when the parents removed to Coles County and . . . — — Map (db m55618) HM |
| | The Lincoln Cabin stood near the north bank of the Sangamon River about 600 yards to the east. — — Map (db m12433) HM |
| On Bunker Hill Road (Illinois Route 159) 0.1 miles from East North Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | During the historical period, the earliest inhabitants of the present-day community of Bunker Hill were the Peoria, Kickapoo, and Winnebago Indians who established an encampment near North Washington and West Morgan Streets. Another Native American . . . — — Map (db m143178) HM |
| On College Avenue (Illinois Route 140) at Clawson Street, on the left when traveling east on College Avenue. |
| | 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 |
| On Prospect Street just west of State Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Bitten by gold rush fever in 1849, Dr. Benjamin F. Edwards, brother to former Illinois governor Ninian Edwards and the Honorable Cyrus Edwards, left Alton and traveled to San Francisco to try to capitalize on the economic opportunity. Days before he . . . — — Map (db m140668) HM |
| On Henry Street north of East 12th Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | This unique Queen Anne style playhouse was built in 1885 for five year old Lucy J. Haskell, daughter of Dr. William A. and Florence Hayner Haskell. It is believed Lucy's grandfather, John E. Hayner, commissioned prominent local architect, Lucas J. . . . — — Map (db m133293) HM |
| On College Avenue (Illinois Route 140), on the right when traveling west. |
| | On this site in 1831, John Mason Peck (1789-1858), pioneer Baptist preacher, author, and educator, established the school which became Shurtleff College. In 1817, Peck had left his home in New England with a vision "to bring the lamp of learning and . . . — — Map (db m139658) HM |
| On West Broadway west of Market Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | 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 |
| On William Street north of West Broadway (Route 100), on the left when traveling north. |
| | Ruins of first state prison in Illinois. Built in 1830-31. Unsanitary conditions aroused persistent criticism from Dorothea Dix, pioneer in prison reform. All inmates were transferred to Joliet prior to 1860. During the Civil War many Confederate . . . — — Map (db m144762) HM |
| On East 5th Street at Central Avenue, on the left when traveling east on East 5th Street. |
| | Scott Bibb (1855-1909) was the plaintiff in the Alton School Case, a series of lawsuits that sought to retain Alton's desegregated schools, which had existed in Alton from 1872 to 1897, a short-lived outcome of the Reconstruction era. When Alton . . . — — Map (db m133294) HM |
| On IL-100 (Illinois Route 100), on the right when traveling north. |
| | In 1673 Jacques Marquette reported that he and fellow French explorer Louis Jolliet discovered a Painting of what was probably two "Water Monsters" on the bluffs of the Mississippi River near present day Alton. By 1700 those pictographic creatures . . . — — Map (db m89339) HM |
| On St. Louis Road at National Terrace on St. Louis Road. |
| | On April 5, 1918, German immigrant Robert Prager was hanged by a mob at this site. Prager's lynching was the high-water mark of the anti-immigrant and anti-German hysteria that gripped the nation during World War I. Persecution in the guise of . . . — — Map (db m151267) HM |
| On West Main Street just east of North Combs Avenue, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Built circa 1845 by Daniel Dove Collins (1814-1892) for his bride Elizabeth M. Anderson (1826-1902), the Collins House is an example of Greek revival architecture. As the first president of the Collinsville village board, Collins held board meetings . . . — — Map (db m144010) HM |
| On North Shamrock Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | The Wann Disaster of January 21, 1893, is Madison County’s most horrific railroad tragedy. It caused the greatest loss of life and cases of personal injury in a single incident. The accident occurred at the Wann Junction on the Big Four Railroad, . . . — — Map (db m139657) HM |
| Near Springfield Road near Illinois Route 159. Reported missing. |
| | One quarter-mile to the west stood Fort Russell, a wooden stockade which served as a base of supplies and operations for the Illinois Militia during the War of 1812. From here, for months at a time, Governor Ninian Edwards administered the affairs . . . — — Map (db m54759) HM |
| On Goshen Road, on the right when traveling west. |
| | The Goshen Road was one of the main arteries of travel in the early 1800's, when Illinois was frontier country. The road ran in a northwesterly direction from Shawneetown to Edwardsville -- a distance of more than 150 miles. Shawneetown and . . . — — Map (db m138859) HM |
| On North Main Street (Illinois Route 143/159) at Liberty Street, on the right when traveling west on North Main Street. |
| | Site of the courthouse where, in 1824, political enemies convicted Governor Edward Coles of illegally freeing his slaves. "To preserve to a continuous line of generations that liberty obtained by the valor of our forefathers, we must make . . . — — Map (db m143182) HM |
| On Troy Road at Longfellow Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Troy Road. |
| | Social visionary N.O. Nelson founded the village of LeClaire in 1890, naming it after Edme Jean LeClaire, who inaugurated profit sharing in France. In contrast to unsanitary urban tenement districts, LeClaire was a model cooperative village offering . . . — — Map (db m143190) HM |
| On North University Drive 0.3 miles south of New Poag Trail, on the right when traveling south. |
| | The once world-renowned concert venue Mississippi River Festival ("MRF") began as a pioneering experiment in regional cooperation between Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the St. Louis Symphony. The Symphony was invited to establish . . . — — Map (db m144301) HM |
| On North Main Street (Illinois Route 143/159), on the right when traveling south. |
| | The remnants of Pogue Store, seen here, mark the center of Edwardsville's business district more than two centuries ago. In 1818, when Robert Pogue built his store, it was located directly across the street from courthouse square.
Pogue's was a . . . — — Map (db m160042) HM |
| | Six Mile Prairie, located in the American Bottom six miles from St. Louis, was first settled in the 1830's by American farm families who migrated from the Upland south. With their crude farm implements, these pioneers broke through the tough prairie . . . — — Map (db m138844) HM |
| On Lewis and Clark Boulevard (Illinois Route 3) 0.2 miles north of West Madison Avenue (Illinois Route 143), on the right when traveling south. |
| | Meriwether Lewis and William Clark originally planned to camp west of the Mississippi River during the winter of 1803-04. Carlos Dehault Delassus, the Spanish commandant at St. Louis, however, had not received formal notification from his government . . . — — Map (db m141787) HM |
| On N. Broadway Avenue (Illinois Route 37) north of Boone Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Salem is locally known as the “Gateway to Little Egypt”. Egypt refers to southern Illinois. In the early days of statehood, crop failures threatened the existence of the isolated settlements in northern and central Illinois, and trips . . . — — Map (db m99120) HM |
| On N. Broadway Avenue (Illinois Route 37) north of Boone Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Lived in Salem, Illinois, from his birth, March 19, 1860, until 1875. A national figure after his “Cross of Gold” speech in 1896, Bryan was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for President in 1896, 1900, 1908, and served as Secretary . . . — — Map (db m99119) HM |
| On Bennington Street 0.5 miles west of Broadway Street. |
| |
In 1893 the Sante Fe Railroad authorized
Charles Devlin, their manager of mining
properties, to purchase the mineral rights
here to 11,000 acres. The Devlin Coal Company
sank two shafts and began producing coal
using the longwall method, . . . — — Map (db m33669) HM |
| On U.S. 45 (U.S. 45) south of Westview Road, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Lt. Col. George Rogers Clark and his troop of 170 volunteers, principally Virginians, camped near this site, called Indian Point, on June 30, 1778. They were marching from Fort Massac to attack the British post at Kaskaskia. This was the first of . . . — — Map (db m146332) HM |
| On Ohio River Scenic Byway (U.S. 45), on the right when traveling south. |
| | In 1673 the areas of the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers were explored by Frenchmen Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette. Their voyages resulted in French claims on the area until 1763 when, by the Treaty of Paris, France ceded the land to . . . — — Map (db m146313) HM |
| On Park Road south of East 5th Street (U.S. 45), on the right when traveling east. |
| | George Rogers Clark arrived at Fort Massac on June 30, 1778, with about 175 men, under orders from Virginia to capture the British outposts in Illinois. British failure to regarrison the old French fort here enabled Clark to enter the Illinois . . . — — Map (db m60313) HM |
| On Spring Creek Road at Meadow Hill Road, on the right when traveling east on Spring Creek Road. |
| | This former school, now a residence, and cemetery were named for the David Haeger family, from Germany, who settled in this part of McHenry County. This area was the boyhood home of David Henry Haeger, the eldest son of the Haeger children, who . . . — — Map (db m65892) HM |
| On Plum Tree Road west of Rock Ridge Road, on the left when traveling west. |
| | In 1843 Ira C. Goodrich purchased this land from the United States Government. As an early settler to McHenry County, Goodrich founded the local school system, served as director and was road master. Farmsteads like this established by the early . . . — — Map (db m65532) HM |
| On Illinois Route 47 at O'Brien-Vanderkaw Road, on the right when traveling south on State Route 47. |
| | In 1673 Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette explored the Illinois Country for France. By the 1763 treaty ending the French and Indian War, this area passed to England. During the American Revolution, George Rogers Clark's men captured it for . . . — — Map (db m76530) HM |
| On North Riverside Drive at Pearl Street, on the right when traveling south on North Riverside Drive. |
| | McHenry County's first commissioners met in this building on August 5th, 1840. The original structure was built on the Court Street side of the public square, now Veterans Memorial Park, as McHenry County's first courthouse.
McHenry County . . . — — Map (db m76532) HM |
| On County Route 2400E north of County Route 1300N, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Benjaminville was founded in the 1850's by Quaker farmers looking for rich prairie soil on which to grow their wheat. The Friends Meeting House, built in 1874, has changed little since then. The adjacent burial ground is divided into two sections: . . . — — Map (db m157153) HM |
| On Davis Avenue at Monroe Drive, on the right when traveling north on Davis Avenue. |
| | 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 |
| On North McLean Street at East Walnut Street, on the right when traveling north on North McLean Street. |
| | The first woman elected to the Illinois Senate, Florence Fifer Bohrer served two terms from 1925 to 1933. She chaired the Senate committee to visit charitable institutions, led efforts to revamp Illinois' child welfare laws, and sponsored . . . — — Map (db m55616) HM |
| On East Walnut Street at North Park Street, on the right when traveling east on East Walnut Street. |
| | Franklin Square contains the homes of former Vice President Adlai Stevenson I and Governor Joseph Fifer. Franklin Park, the centerpiece of the district, was the starting point for partisan torchlight parades in the late nineteenth century. The park, . . . — — Map (db m156963) HM |
| On North McLean Street at East Chestnut Street, on the right when traveling north on North McLean Street. |
| | This was the home of Adlai E. Stevenson I, Vice-President of the United States, 1893-1897. Stevenson was born in Kentucky in 1835 and came to Bloomington in 1852. He attended Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington and Centre College in . . . — — Map (db m55614) HM |
| On North McLean Street at East Walnut Street, on the right when traveling north on North McLean Street. |
| | This was the home of Joseph W. Fifer, Republican Governor of Illinois, 1889-1893. Fifer was born in Virginia in 1840 and came to Illinois in 1857. During the Civil War he served in the 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment. He graduated from Illinois . . . — — Map (db m55615) HM |
| On Park Lake Drive south of Lake Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | In 1908, the park board established racially segregated beaches and bathing facilities at Miller Park. Whites had exclusive use of the lake's larger beach and cleaner waters, while the "colored" beach was located in the park's smaller lagoon - a . . . — — Map (db m156962) HM |
| On North 1st Avenue south of Hamilton Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Matthew T. Scott made his fortune on the Grand Prairie in the 19th century by developing thousands of acres of farmland. He founded the town of Chenoa in 1855 as a center for his business activities. Although Scott bought and sold over 45,000 acres . . . — — Map (db m160064) HM |
| On North 3100 East Road south of County Route 850N, on the right when traveling south. |
| | By the late 1700’s, the Kickapoo people had established a major settlement here, close to fertile fields, abundant game and timber, and important trade routes. Opposed to American expansion, these Native Americans allied with the British during the . . . — — Map (db m157154) HM |
| Near Interstate 55 at milepost 149. |
| | 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 1831 . . . — — Map (db m157176) HM |
| On Old U.S. 66 south of West Main Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | In 1926, construction began on a 2,448-mile highway from Chicago to Santa Monica, California. Route 66 reflected the increased use of motorized vehicles. The road, which cut diagonally across Illinois, passed through Lexington. Sleek restaurants, . . . — — Map (db m157028) HM |
| On North Cherry Street north of North Harrison Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | The John Patton Cabin, originally situated 3½ miles southeast of this site, is a structure intimately linked with the relations of whites and Indians on the Illinois frontier. Built with the assistance of Kickapoo Indians from a nearby village, . . . — — Map (db m160059) HM |
| On East Lincoln Street east of Douglas Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | The Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's School (ISSCS) opened in 1865 as the Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' Home. Dedicated in 1869, it provided a home for children of Civil War veterans who had been killed and wounded. In 1899, the state . . . — — Map (db m160048) HM |
| On Main Street at Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling north on Main Street. |
| | In this structure, built about 1832, residents of the Athens area held a banquet on August 3, 1837, for the 'Long Nine' - Abraham Lincoln and the other State legislators from Sangamon County. The men, whose height totaled fifty-four feet, were . . . — — Map (db m78608) HM |
| On Sangamon Avenue (Illinois Route 123) west of Curtis Black Top, on the left when traveling west. |
| | Founder of the Grand Army of the Republic, Menard County resident, Rush Medical College graduate 1850, Surgeon 14th Illinois Volunteers 1861-1864. He originated the G.A.R. name, ritual and constitution of Post No. 1, Decatur April 6, 1866, called . . . — — Map (db m12315) HM |
| On Illinois Route 97 at Rock Creek Avenue, on the right when traveling south on State Route 97. Reported missing. |
| | 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 |
| On Illinois Route 97 0.1 miles south of Illinois Route 123. |
| | "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 |
| On Mill Street (County Road 7) at Franklin Street, on the left when traveling north on Mill Street. |
| | Maeystown, where three streams descend down the bluff, was founded by Jacob Maeys in 1852. The original settlers were German members of the forty-eighter movement. The village is unique in manner with structures integrated into the landscape. The . . . — — Map (db m140382) HM |
| On Maeystown Road south of Ahne Road, on the right when traveling south. |
| | The church was organized in 1841 by pastor G. A. Schieferdecker and settlers from Saxony, Thuringia, and Westfalia, Germany. The site was donated in 1849 by Johann Christian and Katherine Just. The present church was erected in 1863, and the tower . . . — — Map (db m140384) HM |
| Near S Church Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Bellefontaine was one of the first settlements made by Americans in what is now Illinois. The earliest settlers included families of Revolutionary War veterans who had served with George Rogers Clark. Captain James Moore brought a band of pioneers . . . — — Map (db m140335) HM |
| Near Interstate 55 at milepost 65. |
| | Mary Harris was born in Cork, Ireland in 1837. Her family fled to Toronto during the famine. She moved to Memphis in 1860, married George Jones, an iron molder and proud union man. They had four children together.
Mary Jones moved to Chicago, . . . — — Map (db m156812) HM |
| On Interstate 55 at milepost 65, 10.8 miles south of Main Street (County Road 17). |
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Beneath us lies one of the nation's richest coal seams, formed 300 million years ago and covering two-thirds of Illinois. Coal made this state an industrial and economic powerhouse by the 1880s - it drove the machinery, heated the homes, smelted . . . — — Map (db m149886) HM |
| On McKean Road west of Woods Lane, on the right when traveling east. |
| | A leading figure of the 19th-century "Stone-Campbell" Restoration movement, Barton Warren Stone owned and lived on this farm from 1838 to 1844. Stone advocated the unity of all Christians, served as an educator and church planter, and published . . . — — Map (db m149893) HM |
| On South Main Street at East Morton Ave. on South Main Street. |
| | "I have discovered the machine I want to design and build, a portable 'Ferris Wheel'", W. E. Sullivan, 1893.
A young man's dream became reality when W. E. Sullivan of Roodhouse, Illinois, designed and built a small, portable, revolving wheel, . . . — — Map (db m57658) HM |
| On West Michigan Avenue just east of Havendale Drive, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Miss Dorothea Dix in her "memorial to the Senate and House of the Representatives of Illinois" urged their serious consideration of the afflicted condition of an increasing class of insane sufferers, whose healthful exercise of their intellectual . . . — — Map (db m149907) HM |
| | G.V. Black, father of modern dentistry, was born in 1836 on a farm near Winchester, Illinois. He studied medicine and dentistry and in 1857 began his practice of dentistry in Winchester. After serving in the Civil War, he resumed dental practice in . . . — — Map (db m57631) HM |
| On West State Street just west of Sandy Street, on the right when traveling west. |
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The site of the Farmers State Bank and Trust Company Building, formerly known as the Ayers National Bank Building, has been associated with banking longer than any other site in the State of Illinois and possibly the entire Old Northwest.
By . . . — — Map (db m149896) HM |
| On North Franklin Avenue at West Locust Street, on the left when traveling north on North Franklin Avenue. |
| | 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 |
| On U.S. 52 at West Henry Road, on the right when traveling north on U.S. 52. |
| | In the early 1830’s pioneer traffic moving north from Peoria crowded primitive trails and forced a direct route to Galena. In 1833, Levi Warner’s state survey marked the Galena Road. It cut through this schoolyard. Private Abraham Lincoln passed . . . — — Map (db m55795) HM |
| On Spruce Street at West Roosevelt Street (Illinois Route 72), on the right when traveling south on Spruce Street. |
| | Here, on May 14, 1832, the first engagement of the Black Hawk War took place when 275 Illinois Militiamen under Maj. Isaiah Stillman were put to flight by Black Hawk and his warriors. So thoroughly demoralized were the volunteers that a new army had . . . — — Map (db m59710) HM |
| On South Madison Street just north of East Van Buren Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Founded by the Rt. Rev. Philander Chase, first bishop of Illinois, 1845. Restored and rededicated by the Rt. Rev. William L. Essex, Bishop of Quincy Nov. 4, 1945. — — Map (db m150540) HM |
| Near West Woodside Drive at Knoxville Avenue (Illinois Route 40), on the left when traveling west. |
| | Robert Gilmore LeTourneau (usually referred to as R.G.) was known as the
“dean of earthmoving” and “God's businessman.” At the urging of Caterpillar
Tractor Company, he moved his manufacturing business from California . . . — — Map (db m150578) HM |
| On West Detweiller Drive 0.2 miles west of North Galena Road (Illinois Route 29), in the median. |
| | The city of Peoria was named for the Peoria tribe of the Iliniwek Indian confederacy who once lived here. It was in 1673 that Jacques Marquette and the explorer Louis Jolliet traveled through the widened portion of the Illinois river known as Lake . . . — — Map (db m150580) HM |
| Near North Grandview Drive just east of Irving Park Place, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Meaning “fat lake,” Illinois Indian name for Peoria Lake. Here passed Jolliet and Marquette in 1673. Established near the lake were Ft. Crévecoeur, 1680; Ft. St. Louis, 1691-92; Old Peorias Fort and village, 1730; Peorias, 1778; Ft. . . . — — Map (db m150584) HM |
| On Highway 106, on the right when traveling east. |
| | The fertile prairies in Illinois attracted the attention of French trader Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette as they explored the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers in 1673. France claimed this region until 1763 when it was surrendered to Great . . . — — Map (db m136729) HM |
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