Stuart and Lincoln Law Office

Before he moved to Springfield Abraham Lincoln came to the law office of John Todd Stuart to barrow law books.

Henry E. Dummer---Stuart;s partner at the time---recalled that the "uncouth looking" Lincoln said little and seemed timid. Yet when he did ...

James Stuart Cain

Pioneer banker and mining man born in 1854 and moved to Carson City, Nevada, in 1875. Shortly thereafter he and Martha D. Wells of nearby Genoa were married and moved to Bodie where he engaged in lumber, freighting, banking, and ...

National Historic Landmark-Gilbert Stuart Birthplace

National Historical Landmark-Gilbert Stuart Birthplace

From 1755 to 1761, this gambrel roofed, clapboard house was the home of Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828), best known for his portraits of George Washington and other prominent political figures.

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National Historic Landmark-Colonel John Stuart House

National Historic Landmark-Colonel John Stuart House

Built in 1772 by Colonel John Stuart (c. 1700-1779), the Royal Commissioner for Indian Affairs in the South, this is one of the finest examples of a three story Georgian frame townhouse in the Southern ...

The August 8th Emancipation Celebration at Stuart Nelson Park

Nelson was a graduate of Lincoln High School, commissioned officer in WWI, and president of several major universities. He marched with Ghandi in India and with Dr. King in Alabama.

Burks Chapel AME,7th and Ohio, ran the first school for Negro ...

John Todd Stuart, 1807-1885

Abraham Lincoln’s friend and 1st law partner was born on Nov. 10, 1807, in Fayette Co. The son of a Presbyterian minister & Mary Todd Lincoln’s aunt, Stuart graduated from Centre College in 1826. Two years later he became a ...

Colonel John Stuart House

circa 1767

National Historic Landmark

Born 1718, Inverness, Stuart was related to Scottish

Royality. Educated in London, he circumnavigated

the globe aboard Centurion, Adm. Lord Anson

commanding, capturing the Spanish treasure galleon,

De Cavodonga, in 1743; he arrived in Charleston

Stuart's Headquarters

On Oct. 10, 1862, 1800 picked Confederate cavalry commanded by Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart and Brig. Gen. Wade Hampton with four cannon under Maj. John Pelham occupied Mercersburg on their way to destroy the railroad bridge at Chambersburg used to ...

Stuart's Hill Walking Trail

The 2 ¼ mile Stuart's Hill loop trail takes you over the ground where General James Longstreet launched a massive Confederate counterattack late on the afternoon of August 30, 1862. After intense fighting on Chinn Ridge and along the Sudley ...

Stuart

At this point J. E. B. Stuart had his headquarters and cavalry camp in December 1862.

Marker is on Jefferson Davis Highway (Virginia Route 1) 0.1 miles south of Lafayette Boulevard (Virginia Route 1), on the right when traveling north.

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