Abraham Lincoln - Eighth Judicial District

Danville, Illinois

Abraham Lincoln

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

Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street and North Logan Ave, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street. ...

Abraham Lincoln

1841 - 1861

Lincoln attended court in the building that stood on this spot from 1841 until elected President. He was involved in more than 200 legal procedures in Vermilion County.

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

Abraham Lincoln - Eighth Judicial District

Christian / Sangamon Counties

Abraham Lincoln

traveled this way as he rode the Circuit of the Eighth Judicial District

1847 - 1859

Marker is on Consolidated Road (County Road E 2300N) west of County Route 29, on the right when traveling west.

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Lincoln Under Fire at Fort Stevens

July 12, 1864.

Marker can be reached from 13th Street, N.W. near Fort Stevens Drive, N.W.

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Lion House, Lincoln Park Zoo

Perkins, Fellows & Hamilton, architects

Located in one of the country's oldest municipal zoological parks, the Lion House blends both the grandly-scaled public architecture of the Classical style with the innovative Prarie style developed by Chicago architects in the early 20th ...

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln made a famous pre-inaugural speech from his train platform near here Feb. 12, 1861, placing emphasis on the people's part in justice and good government.

Marker can be reached from South Walnut Street south of New Street.

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Abraham Lincoln’s Father

Four miles west, Thomas Lincoln, father of the President, was born about 1778. He was taken to Kentucky by his father about 1781. Beside the road here was Lincoln Inn, long kept by a member of the family.

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Lincoln to the Citizens of Indiana

“. . . it is your business . . . if the Union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost. . . . It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union. . ...

Lincoln's August 1856 Speech in Kalamazoo

1861 - 1865

This tablet is placed here by

Sarah E. Fuller - Tent No. 8

Daughters of Union Veterans

of the Civil War

Dept. of Michigan

in memory of

Orcutt Post No. 79

Kalamazoo, Dept. Of Mich.

Grand Army ...

The Lincoln Gun

Cast in 1860, this was the first 15-inch Rodman Gun. Its range was more than four miles. Weight of the projectile was over 300 lbs. during Civil War it was used to bombard Confederate batteries on Sewells Point. The gun ...