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 ...

Quincy's Judge Douglas

"His name fills the nation; and is not unknown, even in foreign lands" (A. Lincoln, 1856). Stephen A. Douglas, a Jacksonian Democrat, arrived in Quincy in 1841, at twenty-seven the youngest Supreme Court Judge in Illinois history. In 1843 he ...

Douglas' Disciple

"I regard (Richardson) as one of the truest men that ever lived; he 'sticks to judge Douglas through thick and thin" (A. Lincoln, 1860). Douglas composed the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act. William A. Richardson, another Quincyan and Douglas' political disciple, facilitated ...

Downtown Quincy in 1858

Sixteen days of rain had laid a coat of mud over the macadam streets that wrapped the city's square. Called the "Model City" because of its beautiful setting on the bluffs, Quincy in 1858 occupied about five square miles within ...

Grice Marine Laboratory

The George D. Grice

Marine Biological

Laboratory

In grateful appreciation

of his forsight and tireless

efforts which resulted in the

establishment of this center

for the study of and research

in Marine Biology, the

Trustees of the College of

Charleston ...

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 ...

Lincoln's Quincy

With a population of nearly 13,000 in 1858, Quincy was the Adams County seat and the third largest city in Illinois. Quincy boasted a strong, growing economy based on its transportation, milling, pork packing, and light industry. In 1853 the ...

Lincoln Correspondent

"The points you propose to press upon Douglas, he will be very hard to get up to" ):Lincoln letter to Henry Asbury, 1858). Originally a Kentucky Whig, Henry Asbury was one of the founders of the Republican Party in Illinois ...

The Cabell House

Dedicated to the memory

of

William Henry Cabell

Cadet First Sergeant, Co. D.

VMI Class of 1865

killed at the

Battle of New Market

May 15, 1864

Established by his descendants

Marker is at the intersection of Letcher Avenue and Maiden Lane, on the left when traveling east on ...

Columbus Area Business Hall of Fame

Inducted 2010

Edgar Howard

Edgar Howard had a career in the newspaper business that spanned more than 75 years. After a career in various jobs within newspapers, he bought the newspaper in Papillion in 1883 and established a paper in ...