Lincoln Park

Hudson County’s great public work of the 1890’s was Hudson (now Kennedy) Boulevard, a 20-mile landscaped roadway running through the county. Construction caused the demolition or relocation of many buildings and was completed in 1895. The road marked the Bergen ...

Letter to Lincoln

Chaos on the Eastern Shore

The war divided communities in Maryland, pitting neighbor against neighbor. During Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North, which ended at Antietam, a Greensboro resident wrote to President Abraham Lincoln for assistance on ...

First Home of Abraham Lincoln in Illinois

In March 1830 Abraham Lincoln came from Indiana with his family to settle here in Macon County at a place on the north side of the Sangamon River ten miles westerly from Decatur.

The Lincolns built a log cabin and broke ...

Mystic Lincoln

Sculptor James Earle Frazer

Erected in 1930 by the Lincoln Association of Jersey City with contributions from the school children of Jersey City.

Rededicated February 12, 2005

75th Anniversary

[ Pedestal Inscription: ]

Lincoln

MDCCCIX • MDCCCLXV

[ Left Wing: ]

That government of the people, by ...

Lincoln the Lawyer

It is the celebrated "Almanac Trial" of May 7, 1858 that has forever linked Abraham Lincoln with Beardstown. On that day, Lincoln defended William Duff Armstrong, the son of Lincoln's closest New Salem friends Jack and Hannah Armstrong. Duff ...

President - Elect Abraham Lincoln

In the Old State Capitol Nearby,

President-Elect Abraham Lincoln

used the Governor's Office as Headquarters

until he left for Washington.

Early in the Civil War,

Ulysses S. Grant

also served here as Special Military Aide

to Governor Yates.

During the War, Illinois coutributed

225,300 men,

about one-tenth of the Union's ...

The Lincoln House

On this site the Town proprietors erected the original Lincoln House in 1854.

Leonard Volk met Abraham Lincoln on the sidewalk in front of the hotel on July 16, 1858, and arranged to make Lincoln's life mask later.

Marker is at the ...

Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln, Illinois

Near this site Abraham Lincoln christened the Town with the juice of a watermelon when the first lots were sold on August 27, 1853.

President-Elect Lincoln spoke here, November 21, 1860, while traveling to Chicago, and Lincoln's Funeral Train stopped here, ...

This Lot was Owned by Abraham Lincoln

This lot was owned by

Abraham Lincoln

1858 - 1865

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

Courtesy hmdb.org

Lincoln Rustic Scene of Conspiracy

In the Spring of 1876 a gang of counterfeiters plotted to steal the body of Abraham Lincoln from the Tomb in Springfield, Illinois. Hoping to be paid a ransom of $200,000.00 and the release of one of their gang, Ben ...