Entries Containing All of the Phrases «menard county» AND «illinois»

By Al Wolf, October 4, 2008

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1 ► Illinois, Menard County, Petersburg — Abraham Lincoln - Eighth Judicial District — Petersburg, Illinois — County-Seat Marker —

Abraham Lincoln traveled this way as he rode the Circuit of the Eighth Judicial District ··· 1847 - 1857 — — Map (db m12136) HM

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2 ► Illinois, Menard County, Petersburg — The Survey of Petersburg — Looking for Lincoln —

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

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3 ► Illinois, Menard County, Petersburg — Dr. Benjamin Franklin Stephenson — 1823 - 1871 —

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

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4 ► Illinois, Menard County, Talula — The Wayside Hawthorn —

This tree was within inches of being the Illinois state champion red hawthorn (Crataegus Mollis) when a violent storm split its trunk in the Spring of 2019. According to Mr. Whitehurst, as recorded by Guy Sternberg of the nearby . . . — — Map (db m285215) HM

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