Lincoln's Honored Friend

"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 in 1829. Like ...

Fair-Rutherford House / Rutherford House

(Front text)

The Fair-Rutherford House, a Greek Revival cottage, stood here from ca. 1850 until it was demolished in 2004.

Built for Dr. Samuel Fair, it passed through several owners before 1905, when William H. Rutherford (1852-1910)

bought and enlarged ...

The Rigging Loft

On this site on William Street formerly Horse-and-Cart Street stood The Rigging Loft where members of the first Methodist Society in America worshipped from 1767 - 1768. Among the original members were Philip Embury, Barbara Heck, Captain Thomas Heck. On ...

Lorado Taft (1860 - 1936)

Sculptor of the Debate Memorial

Best remembered for his spectacular fountains, Lorado Taft was the creator of some of our nation's outstanding monuments. Some of his most significant include Blackhawk (Oregon, IL, 1911), The Columbus Memorial (Washington, D.C., 1912), The Fountain ...

Mantooth Farm

Members of the Mantooth family came to Angelina County in 1858. Albert Edwin (Eddie) Mantooth (1874-1969) was born in Homer, Angelina County, to Albert and Mary Richard Hall Mantooth. In 1897, Eddie married Sarah Annie Atkinson Mantooth (1879-1914). In 1909, ...

Forest of Needwood

Estate of Governor Thomas Sim Lee

Member Maryland Convention 1775

Signer Association of Freemen

Governor of Maryland 1779-82, 1792-4

Delegate Continental Congress 1783-4

Member state convention which ratified the Constitution 1788.

Marker is at the intersection of Burkittsville Road (State Highway 17) and Lees Lane, on ...

Hill Cliff Battery

The Revolutionary Army fortified this hill in 1776 to provide more firepower down river and to maintain communication between Gravel Hill Battery to the east and the Fort Constitution area to the west. Hill Cliff Battery mounted from three ...

The Old Toccoa Falls Power Plant

The Old Toccoa Falls Power Plant is an outstanding example of the early hydroelectric generating facilities that served America’s rural communities. Built in 1899 by E. Palmer Simpson of Toccoa, the plant was franchised in that year by the Toccoa ...

Fort Constitution Area

Fort Constitution, which would have enclosed this area, was intended to be the major fortification for the defense of the Hudson River. In January 1776, after three months of construction, work on the fort was halted, for the fort ...

Bartlett Tucker Family Cemetery

Forty graves in this cemetery

containing the remains of

Bartlett Tucker (1874-1861)

and members of his family

were relocated to this spot

from 0.22 acres s/w known as

Tract No. 1300 C-2 in 1983.

There were no identifiable marked

graves. The Tucker family moved

from this area in December ...