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 ...

Gen. Jos. Wheeler, C.S.A.

Routed Gen. E. M. McCook, U.S.A.

July 30, 1864

Capturing 500 of his men

Marker is at the intersection of Millard Farmer Road and Old Corinth Road, on the left when traveling west on Millard Farmer Road.

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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 ...

Lincoln Promoter

"You are one of my most valued friends" (Lincoln letter to Abraham Jonas, 1860). Their friendship began in 1843 in Springfield when Lincoln and Jonas served together in the Illinois House of Representatives. Jonas became an early and ardent supporter ...

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 ...

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 ...