Lincoln Home National Historic Site

Lincoln Home National Historic Site is part of the National Park System, one of more than 390 parks that are important examples of our nation's heritage. This unit of the National Park Service preserves the home of the nation's 16th ...

Mary Lincoln's Circle of Friends

Mary Lincoln formed lasting friendships with women in her neighborhood, including Julia Sprigg and Hanna Shearer, and exchanged a lively correspondence with many out-of-town relatives and friends.Julia Sprigg lived in the house behind you and was a widow with children. ...

Lincoln Street

Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, for whom this street is named, was a division commander in the Saratoga Campaign. In 1778, he became commander of the Southern Department of the American Army and was in command at Charleston when the city surrendered ...

Lincoln Bathhouse

The Lincoln Bathhouse was established in 1915, converted from the abandoned Natural Carbonic Gas Company Plant. Although this bathhouse accommodated large numbers of patrons, it could not keep up with the demand, so construction of the Washington Bathhouse began. By ...

Lincoln's Home Becomes a Shrine

Lincoln understood the importance of making his image available for the presidential campaign. Springfield photographer Preston Butler captured several likenesses of Lincoln during the 1860 election.Lower Left

Ambrotype of Abraham Lincoln, 1860 by Preston Butler

The portrait painter who commissioned this ...

Lincoln School

Claude and Starck

Lincoln School is a superb example of the Prairie School of architecture. Some of the reflections of this style are the bands of terra cotta and stone that emphasize the horizontal lines of the design, detailed terra cotta ...

The Stamford Lincoln

The Stamford Lincoln

Dedicated

July 11, 1995 to Honor

Frank D. Rich, Sr.

(1894 – 1990)

Citizen

Patriot Veteran

City Builder

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Si monumentum requiris

circumspice

If you would see his monument

look around

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On Loan to the Citizens of Stamford

By the Rich Foundation

And His Sons

Frank D. Jr. and Robert N. Rich

Marker is ...

Lincoln Square Building

Formerly Hotel Gettysburg

Since the founding of Gettysburg this has been the site of successive inns -- Scott's Tavern, The Indian Queen, The Franklin House and the McClellan House, which Col. John McClellan and his family operated prior, during and after ...

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing ...

Abraham Lincoln Walked Here

Civil War to Civil Rights

“Tonight, beautiful women, perfume, and the violins’ sweetness ... [yet during the war] the amputation, the blue face, the groan, the glassy eye of the dying.” Walt Whitman

At 10:30 p.m. on March 4, 1865, ...