Abraham Lincoln - Eighth Judicial District

Shelbyville, Illinois

Abraham Lincoln

traveled this way as he rode the Circuit of the Eighth Judicial District ···1847 - 1857

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Presented to the Kuilka Chapter D. A. R. by O. J. Penwell

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Washington Street, ...

Lincoln-Thornton Debate / Lincoln Circuit

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Here

Abraham Lincoln

and

Anthony Thornton

June 15, 1856

debated for and against

Freedom

in our territories.

It was the initial speech that made

Lincoln President

and

The Great Emancipator.

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Lincoln Circuit

1847 - 1858

He practised law here

occupied a room in the hotel

then known as

Tackets Tavern.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Lincoln's Law Practice

Lincoln illustrator Lloyd Ostendorf imagined this scene in connection with Mt. Pulaski's "cast iron tombstone" case that Lincoln handled on appeal in the Illinois Supreme Court in Springfield (1859). Two local residents separately sued Reuben Miller for fraudulently selling them ...

Abraham Lincoln in Tilton, Illinois

Abraham Lincoln

To commemorate Lincoln's visits to Joseph Kirkland's home in Tilton during late 1850's

Marker is on West Fifth Street west of North H Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Lincoln Cemetery

Four months after the Battle of Gettysburg, President Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery. His Gettysburg Address, perhaps the single most famous speech in American history, described a "new birth of freedom" that the war ...

111 Lincoln Street

ACCORD Freedom Trail

Constructed before 1885, this is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Lincolnville, an historic neighborhood founded by freed slaves after the Civil War.

It was home to two generations of the Moran family. Horace Moran was the chef ...

Lincoln Cemetery

Walking Tour Stop 21

Lincoln Cemetery is the final resting place for at least forty African American Civil War veterans, representing the famous 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiments, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry, 7th, 31st, 39th and the 44th Regiment. Included in ...

Lincoln & Photography

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During the Spring term of the Circuit Court in 1858, Abraham Lincoln sat for a portrait with photographer Samuel Alschuler. Alschuler’s studio was on the second floor of the Lowenstern Building, at the southwest corner ...

Urbana's Lincoln

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Murder, larceny, and even rape- - -the young circuit lawyer Abraham Lincoln, practicing in Urbana, handled cases involving all of these in the courthouse which stood on this city block. Lincoln unsuccessfully defended William Weaver, the ...

Champaign's Lincoln

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Until the Illinois Central Railroad rolled into town, geese flocked to a pond in this vicinity. The IC cleared the pond and donated the land to the Congregationalist (today the Community United Church of Christ). ...