Zachary Taylor Home (Springfield)

Springfield, a two and one-half story brick house just east of Louisville, Kentucky, was the boyhood home of Zachary Taylor, 12th president of the United States.  As a career military officer for most of his life, he moved often, ...

Springfield Friends Meeting

Established in 1773 and organized as a Monthly Meeting, 1790. Building erected 1927 on original site is ½ mile east.

Marker is at the intersection of S Main Street (U.S. 311) and Fairfield Road, on the right when traveling west on ...

In Their Springfield Prime

1854 marked Lincoln's public return to politics following a five-year hiatus. That year Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois pushed the "Kansas-Nebraska Act" through the U.S. Congress, overturning the 1820 Missouri Compromise line. Fearing the spread of slavery to western ...

Lincoln's Springfield

Twenty-eight-year-old Abraham Lincoln settled here in 1837. He was unmarried, unlearned, unrefined, with "no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me." On the day before his fifty-second birthday, Lincoln left here a profoundly changed man; a husband and father, financially ...

Springfield Plantation

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Springfield Plantation, an inland rice plantation, was established here by Paul Mazyck (d. 1749), a planter and merchant who combined two large tracts on Foster Creek, a branch of Back River. His father Isaac, a French Huguenot planter, had ...

Economic and Ethnic Diversity in Springfield

In Abraham Lincoln's time, many residents of Springfield came from someplace else, whether a state or an ocean away. Southerners, northerners, and European immigrants came here to improve their lot in life, much as Lincoln had in 1837. Springfield's African ...

Historic Springfield Baptist Church

Springfield Baptist Church was established on January 27, 1864 prior to the abolition of slavery, and is among the first African-American churches founded in Middle Georgia. Enslaved workers purchased land from Mrs. Nancy Bickers and began monthly meetings. Levi Thornton, ...

Springfield Plantation

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This house was built ca. 1806 for planter John Springs III (1782-1853), who served in the S.C. House 1828-34 and was a partner in several banks, railroads, and textile mills before the Civil War. His son Andrew Baxter Springs ...

Springfield

On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the community of

Springfield

Identified with the Springfield Baptist Church and School that existed in the late nineteenth century. Springfield has roots in the African American community which ...

Battle of Springfield

This point marks the farthest advance of the Confederates into the city. After finally routing the 72nd Enrolled Missouri Militia, Confederates were forming along Walnut Street for the final assault into the city when drums along Jordan Creek to the ...