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, ...

Abraham Lincoln Came Often to Boonville

While living with his father on a farm about seventeen miles from here, came often to Boonville to hear court trials and to borrow books from John A. Brackenridge.

From this corner Abraham Lincoln traveled North by ox-team on the Old ...

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

1809 – 1865

President, Emancipator, Martyr

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are ...

Abraham Lincoln

On his only visit to Kansas, he spoke in Troy, December 1, 1859, at the Court House located about 100 feet west of this site. It was reported that the Troy speech was a trial run of his Cooper ...

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

died in this house

April 15, 1865 at 7:22 a.m.

Purchased by

the United States

in 1896.

Marker is at the intersection of 10th Street, NW and E Street, NW, on the right when traveling south on ...

Abraham Lincoln was a Guest in 1844

Site of Rockport Tavern

where Abraham Lincoln

was a Guest in 1844

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Sponsored by the Rockport

Business and Professional

Women’s Club — 1995

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and South 2nd Street, on the left when traveling ...

Abraham Lincoln Employed

[Side 'One']

Lincoln (1809-1865) lived northwest of here 1816-1830. Worked circa 1825 as hired hand for James Taylor. William Herndon, a Lincoln biographer, wrote that Lincoln told him it "was the roughest work a young man could be made to do." ...

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, ...

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 ...