The Ohio Statehouse / Lincoln at the Statehouse

In 1812, the Ohio legislature designated Columbus as the state capital,

with local landowners contributing land and resources for a capitol

building and penitentiary. The first Columbus statehouse, a Federal-style structure completed in 1816, stood on the northeast corner of

State and High ...

Western Terminus of the Lincoln Highway

You are standing at the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the first direct coast-to-coast highway from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco. It was conceived in 1912 by Carl Fisher (founder of the ...

Where do we bury our dead? Lincoln Cemetery

The first half-acre of this cemetery was purchased in 1867 by a society of Black men calling themselves the “Sons of Goodwill,” and for many years this place was called the “Goodwill Cemetery.” The minutes of the Sons of Goodwill ...

The Lincoln Highway

The Lincoln Highway, a coast to coast all weather road from Times Square in New York to San Francisco’s Lincoln Park, was an idea whose birthday was the 10th of September 1912. This road which freed America from the clutches ...

Abraham Lincoln

Marking Old Lower Landing where in 1828 – age 19 – Abraham Lincoln with Allen Gentry made his first flatboat trip to New Orleans. He saw slaves sold and said. “If I ever get a chance to hit that thing, ...

Henry Bourne Joy and the Lincoln Highway

This monument commemorates the Lincoln Highway, America's first transcontinental automobile road, and Henry Bourne Joy, the first president of the Lincoln Highway Association (1913). Joy, also president of the Packard Motor Car Company, is sometimes called the father of the ...

Abraham Lincoln

"We must think anew and act anew"

1809 - 1865

This monument commemorates the

sesquicentennial of Lincoln's birth

by the State of Wyoming in 1959

Charles W. Jeffrey, M.D., Rawlins - Wyo. Donor

Robert I. Russin, Sculptor

Marker is at ...

President Abraham Lincoln

Campaign Speech, Sept. 30, 1859

Candidate Abraham Lincoln delivered a campaign speech at the 1859 Wisconsin State Fair.

The Fair site, at that time, was at the Spring Street Hill/Brockway Grounds located in the heart of Milwaukee between Wisconsin Avenue ...

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

stood here

when he raised the flag

on Independence Hall

February 22nd 1861.

This tablet placed by Post 2

Department of Pennsylvania

Grand Army of the Republic

Marker is on Chestnut Street, on the right when traveling east.

Lincoln County

Lincoln County was created by Act of Feb. 20, 1796 from Wilkes County. It was named for Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln (1733-1810) of Hingham, Mass., who held the Chief Command of the Southern Department in the Continental Army. In 1781 ...