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Former U.S. Presidents: #16 Abraham Lincoln Historical Markers
By Craig Swain, December 1, 2011
Close Up of the Timeline
GEOGRAPHIC SORT WITH USA FIRST
| On 1st Street Northwest at New Jersey Avenue Northwest, on the right when traveling north on 1st Street Northwest. |
| | "No nation perhaps had ever before the opportunity offer'd them of deliberately deciding on the spot where their Capital city should be fixed..." - Peter C. L'Enfant to George Washington, September 11, 1789
A new nation . . . — — Map (db m60127) HM |
| On Chesapeake Street Northwest east of 40th Street Northwest, on the left when traveling east. |
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To your right is "Point Reno," the highest point in Washington — 409 feet above sea level, to be exact.
This unsurpassed vantage brought the Civil War (1861-1865) to Tenleytown. After the Union defeat at Bull Run in July 1861, . . . — — Map (db m130923) HM |
| On Jefferson Drive Southwest east of 7th Street Southwest, on the right when traveling east. |
| | On June 18, 1861, T.S.C. Lowe made a tethered observation flight with his gas-filled balloon Enterprise from a spot on the National Mall in front of where the National Air and Space Museum now stands. During this flight, he sent the first telegram . . . — — Map (db m140624) HM |
| Near U.S. 1 just north of Johns Road, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Four score 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 m142392) HM WM |
| Near Mayport NS Drive 0.1 miles west of Jackson Memorial Dr. |
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Four score 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 m143358) WM |
| On E Union Street near Ocean Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | The Afro-American Insurance Company, formerly the Afro-American Industrial and Benefits Association, was founded in 1901 to provide affordable health insurance and death benefits to the state's African-Americans. Founded by the Reverend E.J. Gregg, . . . — — Map (db m59633) HM |
| Near Halsema Road North 0.4 miles north of Old Plank Road, on the right when traveling north. |
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Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was given as part of the dedication ceremony for a soldier’s cemetery. The cemetery was carved from a field at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where armies clashed in 1863 during the Civil War. The dedication, held . . . — — Map (db m142617) HM |
| Near Halsema Road North 0.4 miles north of Old Plank Road, on the right when traveling north. |
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The Third Union invasion was significant because it was the first deployment of African American troops in Florida by the federal government. The 33rd USCT (United States Colored Troops), formerly known as the 1st South Carolina Colored Infantry . . . — — Map (db m143682) WM |
| Near Willing Street 0.1 miles west of Caroline Street. |
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April 12, 1865
Fort Sumter Attacked
July 21, 1861
1st Battle Of Bull Run
April 6, 1862
Battle Of Shiloh
August 29, 1862
2nd Battle Of Bull Run
September 17, 1862 . . . — — Map (db m152441) WM |
| Near Marine Street 0.1 miles south of St. Francis Street, on the right when traveling south. |
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Four score 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 m144126) HM WM |
| Near SW 102nd Ave at County Road 476B. |
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Four score 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 m146016) WM |
| On East Main Street at Elliott Street, on the left when traveling east on East Main Street. |
| | Near this site on November 7, 1864 General Sherman received orders from President Lincoln and General Grant to proceed with his plans to march his army from Atlanta to the sea. Thus, the infamous March to the Sea originated in Kingston. This action . . . — — Map (db m35011) HM |
| On Battleline Road at Alexander Bridge Road, on the right when traveling south on Battleline Road. |
| | Soldiers battled fatigue, thirst, and cold On the night of September 19, 1863, when the first day of bloody fighting had ended, the two armies re-grouped and planned their strategy for the next day. The Federal left withdrew to a line which . . . — — Map (db m62930) HM |
| On 500 Block West Bay Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | One of two native Georgians who served as generals in the U.S. Army during the Civil War, John C. Frémont was born nearby on January 21, 1813. As an army officer, his 1840s explorations of the American West gained him fame as the . . . — — Map (db m62765) HM |
| | For, Savannah, Christmas 1864 was anything but a time
for merriment. Almost four years of war had taken the
lives of thousands of Georgians, destroyed millions of
dollars in property and left the state in chaos. As the
holiday approached, so . . . — — Map (db m19422) HM |
| On Bull Street at Harris Street, on the left when traveling south on Bull Street. |
| | On January 12, 1865, U.S. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and General Wm. T. Sherman met here at the home of Charles Green with 20 leaders from Savannah’s African-American churches, including Garrison Frazier, Ulysses L. Houston, and William . . . — — Map (db m40696) HM |
| Near Washington Avenue at Cole Street. |
| | Four score 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 m114679) HM WM |
| Near Millard Farmer Road 0.4 miles east of Old Corinth Road, on the right when traveling east. |
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The Battle of Brown's Mill killed or wounded about 100 of McCook's men. Wheeler's casualties probably numbered fewer than 50. "The dead lay around us on every side, singly and in groups and piles; men and horses, - in some cases, apparently . . . — — Map (db m94668) HM |
| On Ebenezer Road (Georgia Route 275). |
| | One mile north, on December 9, 1864, during the American Civil War, U.S. Gen. Jeff. C. Davis crossed Ebenezer Creek with his 14th Army Corps as it advanced toward Savannah during Gen. William T. Sherman’s March to the Sea. Davis hastily removed the . . . — — Map (db m31226) HM |
| On E. E. Butler Parkway (U.S. 129) at Myrtle Street (Georgia Route 11 Conn), on the right when traveling north on E. E. Butler Parkway. |
| | This marker and plaza proudly acknowledges the significant contributions of John William Morrow, Jr., and countless citizens for the betterment of this community.
Born in 1918 in Hall County, John W. Morrow, Jr., graduated Booker T. Washington . . . — — Map (db m25993) HM |
| On Prison Site Road south of Cemetery Road, on the right when traveling east. |
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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 m47798) HM |
| On 13th Street 0 miles east of 2nd Avenue, on the right when traveling west. |
| | On the adjoining lot stood the large columned home of Martin Jenkins Crawford, Lawyer, Member of the General Assembly of Georgia, twice Judge of the Superior Court of the Chattahoochee Circuit, Member United States Congress, and of the provisional . . . — — Map (db m43079) HM |
| On New Phoenix Road 0.6 miles east of Old Phoenix Road, on the right when traveling west. |
| | In 1839, Philadelphia Sunday School Society was organized and a house of warship was built on a tract of land on Lick Creek donated by the Turner family. Joel Chandler Harris, while he lived in Turnworld Plantation, attended this church with his . . . — — Map (db m34911) HM |
| On Lee Gordan Mill Terrace east of Red Belt Road, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Captain Horace Porter was Chief of
Ordnance for the , Army of the
Cumberland. During the Battle of
Chickamauga Porter served as a
volunteer aide to General
Rosecrans. During the Confederate
breakthrough on September
20 Rosecrans yelled, . . . — — Map (db m142987) HM |
| On Julia Davis Drive 0.2 miles east of Capital Boulevard, on the left when traveling east. |
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Gutzon Borglum, Sculptor of Mount Rushmore
Born: St. Charles, Idaho 1867
Died: Chicago, Illinois 1941
Copy executed by Irene Deely of Boise, Idaho 2009
"I have tried to give to posterity, in a true, unstudied picture, a glimpse of . . . — — Map (db m32232) HM |
| On N Capitol Boulevard north of W Bannock Street, in the median. |
| | President Abraham Lincoln created Idaho Territory, appointed its first officers and judges and addressed Congress about Idaho in 1863 and 1864. He considered Idaho issues in the White House on the afternoon that he was shot and invited the former . . . — — Map (db m126722) HM |
| On South 5th Avenue (Business Interstate 15) at South 4th Avenue (U.S. 30), on the left when traveling north on South 5th Avenue. |
| | In an era of emigrants, Mormon settlers and the military, Pocatello emerged as a strong leader of the the Hukenduka Shoshone.
Born after 1810, Pocatello claimed this area and surrounding territories as his homeland. He soon watched his . . . — — Map (db m108286) HM |
| On South 5th Avenue at South 4th Avenue, on the left when traveling north on South 5th Avenue. |
| | Chief Pocatello - Born in a Time of Change
It is hard to imagine the change Pocatello saw during his lifetime, and the challenges to his people's way of life to which he was forced to respond.
Early Life
Pocatello was . . . — — Map (db m108331) HM |
| On Lincoln Road 0.2 miles from Middleton Road, on the left when traveling east. |
| | In early September, 1854, Major Granville Hallar set out with a US military force from their post in Oregon to avenge the Ward-party deaths. Upon arrival at the rebuilt Hudson Bay's Fort Boise near the mouth of the Boise River, the Indians they . . . — — Map (db m22366) HM |
| On East Main Street near 1st Street East, on the left when traveling east. |
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Franklin is Idaho's oldest town. Settled in 1860 by Mormon pioneers who traveled to the vicinity of the confluence of Worm Creek and Muddy River, by year's end, 61 Latter-day Saints (LDS) families were there. The LDS laid out a fort-style . . . — — Map (db m105566) HM |
| On Main Street at 12th Street, on the right when traveling east on Main Street. |
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The original territory encompassed an area of 324,000 square miles – an area larger than Texas – and included all of present day Montana, virtually all of Wyoming, including western strips of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska. . . . — — Map (db m96492) HM |
| On Maine Street at 5th Street, on the right when traveling east on Maine Street. |
| | Singleton had succumbed "Hook and Line" to the Democrats, stated Lincoln in 1854. He and Quincyan James W. Singleton had been fellow Whigs and disciples of Henry Clay. They had campaigned together in 1848 during Whig Zachary Taylor's . . . — — Map (db m150599) HM |
| | Woodland Cemetery—The necropolis that in life (Cornelius Volk) did so much to beaut(ify) and make attractive" (Quincy Daily-Herald, 1898). Among significant historical Woodland memorials are the gravestones of Orville and . . . — — Map (db m150258) HM |
| On 5th Street north of Maine Street, on the left when traveling north. |
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Lincoln: ". . . I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so. And I have no inclination to do so."
Douglas: ". . . Mr. . . . — — Map (db m156831) HM |
| | "I regard (Richardson) as one of the truest men that ever lived; he 'sticks to judge Douglas through thick and thin" (A. Lincoln, 1860). Douglas composed the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act. William A. Richardson, another Quincyan and Douglas' . . . — — Map (db m58760) HM |
| On Hampshire Street west of North 5th Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Sixteen days of rain had laid a coat of mud over the macadam streets that wrapped the city's square. Called the "Model City" because of its beautiful setting on the bluffs, Quincy in 1858 occupied about five square miles within . . . — — Map (db m58759) HM |
| On 5th Street north of Maine Street, on the left when traveling north. |
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Lincoln: We oppose the Dred Scott Decision, . . . because we think that it lays the foundation not merely of enlarging and spreading that evil [slavery] but that it lays the foundation of spreading that evil into the states themselves . . . . . . — — Map (db m156830) HM |
| | "Here, too, the father of the town, with other men of large renown, are gathered by that reaper stern, who cuts down each and all in turn" (Henry Asbury, Reminiscences of Quincy, Illinois". Referring to the leaders from an earlier . . . — — Map (db m150257) HM |
| On North 5th Street at Hampshire Street on North 5th Street. |
| | "The points you propose to press upon Douglas, he will be very hard to get up to" ):Lincoln letter to Henry Asbury, 1858). Originally a Kentucky Whig, Henry Asbury was one of the founders of the Republican Party in Illinois along with . . . — — Map (db m58753) HM |
| On North 5th Street at Hampshire Street on North 5th Street. |
| | "You are one of my most valued friends" (Lincoln letter to Abraham Jonas, 1860). Their friendship began in 1843 in Springfield when Lincoln and Jonas served together in the Illinois House of Representatives. Jonas became an early and . . . — — Map (db m58764) HM |
| On Hampshire Street at 9th Street, on the left when traveling east on Hampshire Street. |
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Lincoln Was Exhausted
after the debate with Douglas.
"I tell you, I'm mighty nigh petered out; I reckon I'll have to quit and give up the race."
That was Lincoln's comment on October 13, 1858; he was in a "state of . . . — — Map (db m156849) HM |
| On North 5th Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | On October 13 1858, two candidates for U.S. Senate met in this public square for a sixth debate. Quincy, in the west-central portion of the state, was a true battleground area where both candidates saw reasonable prospects of victory. . . . — — Map (db m58781) HM |
| On Maine Street at 5th Street on Maine Street. |
| | On November 1, 1854 an incensed Lincoln attacked the immorality of slavery in a speech at Kendall Hall. Lincoln was awakened from a five-bear political slumber by Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act, attacking it in a series of speeches in . . . — — Map (db m149831) HM |
| On North 8th Street at Hampshire Street, on the right when traveling south on North 8th Street. |
| | Quincy's Eliza Caldwell Browning and Abraham Lincoln first met in 1836. She was a new bride, and he had just received his law license. When Eliza discovered Lincoln's "great merits," the two established an easy rapport. Their . . . — — Map (db m58739) HM |
| | Quincy lawyer and newspaper editor Andrew Johnston became acquainted with Abraham Lincoln in the Illinois Legislature when Lincoln served as representative and Johnson as assistant clerk. Like Lincoln, a Whig, Johnston was a law partner . . . — — Map (db m58795) HM |
| On Maine Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | "Archie Williams was one of the strongest-minded and clearest-minded men in Illinois" (A. Lincoln). Lincoln and his friend Archibald Williams had much in common. Both were born in Kentucky and moved to Illinois. Williams coming to Quincy . . . — — Map (db m58790) HM |
| On Hampshire Street at North 5th Street, on the right when traveling east on Hampshire Street. |
| | With a population of nearly 13,000 in 1858, Quincy was the Adams County seat and the third largest city in Illinois. Quincy boasted a strong, growing economy based on its transportation, milling, pork packing, and light industry. In 1853 . . . — — Map (db m58755) HM |
| On 5th Street south of Hampshire Street, on the right when traveling south. |
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Lincoln: ". . . reduced to its lowest element, slavery is no other than that between the man that thinks slavery is wrong and those who do not think it wrong. . . . We think it is a moral, a social, and a political wrong. . . . [Douglas] has, . . . — — Map (db m156822) HM |
| On 5th Street south of Hampshire Street, on the right when traveling south. |
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Douglas: "Let each state mind its own business, and let its neighbors alone - then there will be no trouble on this question. . . . If we will stand by that great principle, then Mr. Lincoln will find that this Republic can exist forever . . . — — Map (db m156824) HM |
| On South 12th Street just north of State Street. |
| | Abraham Lincoln and John Wood shared similar political views, Both were members of the Whig Party and were strongly allied against slavery. Lincoln and Wood worked to establish the Republican Party, and each campaigned for the other's . . . — — Map (db m58737) HM |
| On 5th Street just south of Hampshire Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Quincy was in a festive mood for the all-day event with bands, banners, and thousands of people in attendance. Historian E.B. Long said, "It was a carnival time in Illinois. Mobs of thousands journeyed by wagon, horseback, boat and . . . — — Map (db m150023) HM |
| | "His name fills the nation; and is not unknown, even in foreign lands" (A. Lincoln, 1856). Stephen A. Douglas, a Jacksonian Democrat, arrived in Quincy in 1841, at twenty-seven the youngest Supreme Court Judge in Illinois history. In . . . — — Map (db m150024) HM |
| On 5th Street south of Hampshire Street, on the right when traveling north. |
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Lincoln: ". . . there is no reason in the world why the Negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence . . . . I hold that . . . in the right to eat the bread . . . which his own hand earns he is . . . — — Map (db m156821) HM |
| On South 4th Street (Illinois Route 57). |
| | "Who shall say, I am the superior, and you are the inferior?" asked Lincoln in July 1858. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates focused on slavery. During the October 13th Quincy debate Lincoln affirmed: "...in the right to eat the bread . . . — — Map (db m58798) HM |
| On 5th Street north of Maine Street, on the left when traveling north. |
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Lincoln: "We also oppose [slavery] as an evil so far as it seeks to spread itself. We insist upon a policy that shall restrict it to its present limits. We do not suppose on doing this that we infringe upon the Constitution. . . . . . — — Map (db m156828) HM |
| On Bonansinga Drive at All American Park on Bonansinga Drive. |
| | Lincoln traveled to Quincy by stagecoach in 1854 after crossing the Illinois River at Naples. Lincoln's first documented visit was to support the Congressional candidacy of Archibald Williams and to attack the Kansas- Nebraska Act and . . . — — Map (db m57881) HM |
| On Hampshire Street at 7th Street, on the right when traveling east on Hampshire Street. |
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On this site stood the house of Orville Hickman Browning (1806-1881)
Illinois State Senator and Representative
Senator, Secretary of the Interior, and Attorney General of the United States
Friend and adviser of Presidents Abraham . . . — — Map (db m150022) HM |
| On Bonansinga Drive at All American Park on Bonansinga Drive. |
| | Quincy's brewers and brick makers, contractors and coopers, foundry and factory workers, and diverse other tradesmen made this Mississippi River community an important center of commerce in Lincoln's day. Quincy's businessmen, whose . . . — — Map (db m57883) HM |
| On Hampshire Street at North 8th Street, on the right when traveling east on Hampshire Street. |
| | Quincy's Orville Hickman Browning was Lincoln's friend, advisor, and confidant. According to historian David Donald, Lincoln considered Browning an old friend "whom he could absolutely trust. He knew the Illinois senator would never . . . — — Map (db m58742) HM |
| On Northwest Cross Street at West Lincoln Street, on the left when traveling north on Northwest Cross Street. |
| | Near this spot, then known as Curry's Grove, on October 19, 1858, Abraham Lincoln delivered an address in his campaign for the United States Senate. His words were little noted nor long remembered, but of such things too is history made. — — Map (db m149876) HM |
| On Sangamon Street at N. Bay Street on Sangamon Street. |
| | Rejecting a treaty, Black Hawk, a leader of the Sauk and Fox, led his hungry people back into Illinois from Iowa in early 1832, intending to plant corn. Black Hawk also hoped to form an alliance with the Winnebago and Pottawatomie. . . . — — Map (db m57691) HM |
| On West 3rd Street just west of South State Street. |
| | In memory of
Abraham Lincoln
who, for the sake of a mother in distress, cleared her son Duff Armstrong of the charge of murder in this hall of justice.
May 7 1858 — — Map (db m57862) HM |
| On Sangamon Street at N. Bay Street on Sangamon Street. |
| | Abraham Lincoln and his men were among the 1,500 or so volunteers who had poured into Beardstown for basic military drills. These men had answered Gen. John Reynolds' call to drive Black Hawk and his people out of Illinois. The military . . . — — Map (db m57689) HM |
| | When Abraham Lincoln sought election to the Illinois legislature in 1832, his platform focused on his belief that improvements should be made to the Sangamon River, which he said would be "vastly important and highly desirable to the . . . — — Map (db m57856) HM |
| On State Street at Main Street on State Street. |
| | Abraham Lincoln first saw Beardstown in the Spring of 1831 as he, two friends, and Denton Offutt steered Offutt's flatboat laden with merchandise on their way to New Orleans. He returned in 1832, first in March to help get the steamer . . . — — Map (db m57693) HM |
| On South State Street at Main Street on South State Street. |
| | Abraham Lincoln had just won an acquittal for his client William Duff Armstrong in what is now known as the celebrated Almanac Trial of May 7, 1858. At the conclusion of the trial, held on the second floor of the Cass County Courthouse . . . — — Map (db m57858) HM |
| | People in Cass County knew Abraham Lincoln not only as a lawyer but also as a candidate for the Illinois legislature and U.S. Congress. Those earlier campaigns allowed Lincoln to hone his political skills for the 1858 senatorial content . . . — — Map (db m57861) HM |
| On West 3rd Street just west of South State Street. |
| | It is the celebrated "Almanac Trial" of May 7, 1858 that has forever linked Abraham Lincoln with Beardstown. On that day, Lincoln defended William Duff Armstrong, the son of Lincoln's closest New Salem friends Jack and Hannah Armstrong. . . . — — Map (db m57859) HM |
| On S. State Street just north of 3rd Street. |
| | "A house divided cannot stand." — — Map (db m57860) HM |
| On East Main Street at Jefferson Street on East Main Street. |
| | Travel in Abraham Lincoln's time was time-consuming, dirty, and usually downright uncomfortable. On many of his trips, Lincoln traveled by train to Meredosia. From there he had the choice of a steamboat or a bone-jarring ride in a . . . — — Map (db m57863) HM |
| On 1st Street at East Park Street, on the left when traveling north on 1st Street. |
| | Until the Illinois Central Railroad rolled into town, geese flocked to a pond in this vicinity. The IC cleared the pond and donated the land to the Congregationalist (today the Community United Church of Christ). Their sanctuary, completed near the . . . — — Map (db m31113) HM |
| On Homer Lake Road (County Route 14) west of South Homer Lake Road (County Route 2575 E), on the right when traveling east. |
| | A National Historic trail of the Boy Scouts of America established in 1963 as part of the circuit traveled between Urbana and Danville, Il. By Abraham Lincoln on the Eighth Judicial District in 1847 - 1859.
The trail traverses 16 miles easterly . . . — — Map (db m23955) HM |
| On Homer Lake Road (County Road 14) west of South Homer Lake Road (County Route 2575 E), on the left when traveling west. |
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On the Bloomington Road
The Fort Clark Road, later known as the Bloomington or State Road, was an important artery for commerce between Danville and Urbana. The road was first approved in 1826 by the Illinois Assembly. It was the first . . . — — Map (db m23850) HM |
| Near Lake of the Woods Country Park Road east of Route 47. |
| | (Top Section)
Champaign County was always on Lincoln’s circuit. Abraham Lincoln spent nearly 20 years of his life practicing law on the 8th Judicial Circuit, traveling from one county seat to another. Even as the circuit shrank while . . . — — Map (db m24340) HM |
| On East Oak Street west of Heather Drive, on the left when traveling west. |
| | Lincoln’s Mahomet
Upper Section
The village of Middletown-Mahomet was platted by Daniel Porter in 1832 on the west bank of the Sangamon River near its headwaters. The main street of the village was actually a new road, made necessary by . . . — — Map (db m24374) HM |
| On County Route 1350N at County Route 2800E, on the left when traveling east on County Route 1350N. |
| | Abraham Lincoln
traveled this way as he rode the Circuit of the Eighth Judicial District
1847 - 1859 — — Map (db m10987) HM |
| On Homer Lake Road west of County Route 12, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Kelley’s Tavern was originally called Strong’s Inn after Cyrus Strong, who built a mud-mortar log cabin here in the 1830's. The inn at Strong’s Ford was a stop on the Bloomington or State Road from Danville west to Urbana. Kelley’s Inn was a stop . . . — — Map (db m23803) HM |
| On N. Long Street (U.S. 45) at West Strong Street, on the left when traveling south on N. Long Street. |
| | Abraham Lincoln made his farewell address to the people of Illinois at the Tolono Station February 11, 1861. "I am leaving you on an errand of national importance, attended as you are aware with considerable difficulties. Let us believe as some poet . . . — — Map (db m4720) HM |
| On Long Street (U.S. 45) at West Austin Street, on the right when traveling north on Long Street. |
| | Abraham Lincoln traveled through Tolono by locomotive at least eighteen times. He whiled the time away for his train connections by playing horseshoes and visiting with the Tolono residents. While campaigning in Illinois, Lincoln would frequently . . . — — Map (db m23816) HM |
| On East Main Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Abraham Lincoln
traveled this way as he rode the Circuit of the Eighth Judicial District ···1847 - 1857 — — Map (db m12194) HM |
| On South Race Street south of West Main Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Top Section
During the Spring term of the Circuit Court in 1858, Abraham Lincoln sat for a portrait with photographer Samuel Alschuler. Alschuler’s studio was on the second floor of the Lowenstern Building, at the southwest corner of . . . — — Map (db m31120) HM |
| On East Main Street east of South Broadway Avenue, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Top Section
Murder, larceny, and even rape- - -the young circuit lawyer Abraham Lincoln, practicing in Urbana, handled cases involving all of these in the courthouse which stood on this city block. Lincoln unsuccessfully defended . . . — — Map (db m31119) HM |
| On Mt. Auburn Blacktop Road (County Road E 2175N) at South 3rd Principal Meridian Road (County Road N 2100E), on the left when traveling west on Mt. Auburn Blacktop Road. |
| | Abraham Lincoln
traveled this way as he rode
the Circuit of the
Eighth Judicial District
1847 - 1859 — — Map (db m12200) HM |
| On East Main Cross Street west of South Main Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | Abraham Lincoln
traveled this way as he rode
the Circuit of the Eighth
Judicial District ···1847-1857 — — Map (db m12204) HM |
| On West Main Cross Street at South Washington Street, on the left when traveling west on West Main Cross Street. |
| | “I had pleasant accommodations at Taylorville in company with Mr. Lincoln & Mr. Thorton,” Circuit Judge David Davis once wrote from here.
He found this town–the last county seat on his circuit route–to be . . . — — Map (db m12208) HM |
| On Archer Avenue west of Michigan Avenue (Illinois Route 1), on the right when traveling east. |
| | This structure was erected in 1841 by Col. Wm. B. Archer, founder of Marshall, and John Bartlett and has been in continuous use as a hotel. It was an important stage coach stop on the early Cumberland Road where many prominent people, including . . . — — Map (db m152564) HM |
| On Jackson Avenue, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Abraham Lincoln
traveled this way as he rode
the Circuit of the Eighth
Judicial District···1847-1857 — — Map (db m10938) HM |
| On Jackson Avenue at 6th Street, on the left when traveling east on Jackson Avenue. |
| | Side One
Top Section
Nineteenth-century Illinois political campaigns and rallies were raucous affairs, part entertainment and part serious politics. The candidates were often accompanied or preceded by marchers, fireworks, flag . . . — — Map (db m30866) HM |
| On County Route 040 N east of County Route 1420 E, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Left Section
Abraham Lincoln was a frequent visitor to Cole County in the 1840's, traveling on the judicial circuit. In Charleston, according to Amanda Hanks Poorman (the daughter of Dennis Hanks), Lincoln would use the Hanks’s horse . . . — — Map (db m30847) HM |
| On Lincoln Highway Road south of County Route 150N, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Here on January 31, 1861, President-Elect Abraham Lincoln visited his stepmother, Mrs. Sarah Bush Lincoln and her daughter Mrs. Reuben Moore (Matilda Johnston). This was his last visit to Coles County before leaving Illinois for his inauguration. . . . — — Map (db m30888) HM |
| On County Route 040 N east of Route 1420 E, on the right when traveling east. |
| | In 1837 Thomas Lincoln erected a cabin on a tract of land situated one-half mile to the east. Here he resided until his death in 1851. Abraham Lincoln visited here frequently, and after 1841 held title to forty acres of land on which his parents . . . — — Map (db m30933) HM |
| On Lincoln Highway Road (County Road 1520E) just south of County Road 150N, on the right when traveling south. |
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Left Panel:
“This will certify that the foregoing plot of the town of Farmington laid by me as proprietor is correct.
Witness my hand and seal this 30th day of April 1852.”
J. J. . . . — — Map (db m30979) HM |
| On Old State Road at County Route 100E, on the left when traveling west on Old State Road. |
| | Abraham Lincoln
traveled this way as he rode
the Circuit of the
Eighth Judicial District
1847 - 1859 — — Map (db m10989) HM |
| On Broadway Avenue at South 17th Street, on the left when traveling west on Broadway Avenue. |
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Abraham Lincoln’s last visit to Cole County was indeed of a personal nature. Lincoln was described as he left Springfield by Henry C. Whitney, who accompanied him part of the way on the train: “. . . . . — — Map (db m30840) HM |
| On North Pike Street north of Illinois Route 133, on the right when traveling north. |
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Dr. Hiram Rutherford was a key person involved in Abraham Lincoln’s famous slave case, the only instance in his career where Lincoln represented the rights of a slave owner. Robert Matson brought slaves from Kentucky to work his . . . — — Map (db m30867) HM |
| Near West LaSalle Drive 0.1 miles east of North Stockton Drive, on the right when traveling east. |
| | One of the oldest and most important public sculptures in Chicago, this monument to America’s sixteenth president influenced a generation of sculptors due to its innovative combination of a natural-looking Lincoln-–depicted deep in thought as . . . — — Map (db m47815) HM |
| Near East 35th Street at South Lake Park Avenue, on the left when traveling east. |
| | United States Senator Stephen Douglas, who died in 1861 at the age of forty-eight, was a firm believer in the future of Chicago. He held states offices and became nationally known for his debating skill in the Senate and in his campaign against . . . — — Map (db m120728) HM |
| On South Lincoln Street north of East Lamotte Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Here stood the Dubois Tavern. Jesse K. Dubois, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, was an official in the United States Land Office in Palestine from 1849-1853 and later became the Auditor of Public Accounts for Illinois. His son, Fred T. Dubois, . . . — — Map (db m23309) HM |
| On North Main Street at East Market Street, on the right when traveling north on North Main Street. |
| | A United States Land Office was located at this site in 1820 and operated until 1855. Settlers from as far as Chicago came here to file on homesteads.
Young Abraham Lincoln passing through Palestine in 1830 with his family in emigrant wagons . . . — — Map (db m23316) HM |
| On Cumberland Road north of U.S. 40, on the right when traveling east. |
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"History of The National Road"
Settlers had been moving west since the early 1700's. By 1802, so many farms and towns had been settled in the Ohio Valley that people living in the territory were calling for . . . — — Map (db m155631) HM |
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