Hillsboro was founded in 1823. Abundant natural resources shaped its economic landscape, such as the eight-foot vein of coal underlying the town. Coal from Hillsboro and nearby Taylor Springs and Kortkamp was primarily used locally rather than . . . — — Map (db m281209) HM
St. John's Cemetery contains the graves of four Revolutionary War Soldiers.
Jacob Hileman, born July 20, 1762 in Northampton Co., Pennsylvania. As a private he served in the 4th company, 3rd battalion. Northampton County Militia in 1778 . . . — — Map (db m207797) HM WM
While in Hillsboro, Lincoln often visited his good friends, Joseph and Jane Eccles - affectionately known as "Uncle Joe" and "Aunt Jane" - at their home on the corner of Berry and East Water streets. The Eccles couple visited President and Mrs. . . . — — Map (db m281212) HM
Early Political Career
Born in 1775 in Montgomery County, Maryland, Ninian Edwards moved to Kentucky in 1794 and was elected to the Kentucky legislature in 1795. He was appointed to serve as Chief Justice in the Kentucky Court of Appeals . . . — — Map (db m263411) HM
Route 66, one of the original highways in the US Highway System, was established on November, 11, 1926. It became one of the most famous roads in the US, passing through Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and . . . — — Map (db m159643) HM
Located at the intersection of the two main roads, mid-19th century Poolesville was Montgomery County’s second-largest town. Its residents had decidedly secessionist tendencies and many sons fighting for the South. In the fall of 1862, as the . . . — — Map (db m1729) HM
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• Like many in our community, Louis Sedentop made his living as a farmer. Arriving in America from Germany in 1835, he settled on eighty acres of land in Montgomery County. He married Honora Leonard in 1859 and they . . . — — Map (db m281220) HM
Abraham Lincoln appeared
on these court house steps
on the afternoon of
September 17, 1859, and
spoke denying the assertion
of the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas,
Senator from Illinois, that
human slavery was protected
by the . . . — — Map (db m95625) HM
Yet again history was repeated when fire damaged the County's Courthouse on March 12, 1900. The upper floor of the 1879 building was destroyed and fell through to the first floor. The fire was believed to have started in the southeast section of the . . . — — Map (db m169084) HM
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