Choosing a President

In February 1860 the Illinois State Republican Central Committee met in Springfield, Illinois. There the Committee selected Decatur as the site for the upcoming State Republican Convention. The site selected for the Convention was located on South State Street and ...

Birthplace of the Grand Army of the Republic

In a second floor room on this spot the Grand Army of the Republic was organized April 6, 1866, by Dr. Benjamin E. Stephenson.This tablet is placed by The Department of Illinois Woman's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army ...

Lincoln's Legacy

During his presidency, Abraham Lincoln had promised to care for the men in the armed services-and for their widows and orphans. Lincoln was unable, however, to keep that promise. In response, the Grand Army of the Republic or G.A.R. emerged ...

Hon. Silas Wright

During his youth Silas Wright came to Sandy Hill, now Hudson Falls, to learn to be a lawyer, serving his clerkship in this small building. This was the law office of Hon. Henry C. Martindale, a judge of the ...

Music Please, Maestro

In December 1849, an unusual event occurred for the lawyers who traveled on the Eighth Circuit. Mrs. Jane Martin Johns had recently moved to Decatur with her husband. She had set up temporary residence in the Macon House when her ...

Milwaukee River Flushing Pump

1888

This pump, designed by Edwin Reynolds (1831-1909) and built by the Edward P. Allis Company, is the major component of one of the earliest water-pollution control systems. It was capable of pumping more than a half billion gallons of ...

Jack Berry's Town

Largest post Revolutionary Seneca Indian village occupied this site 1780-1840

Marker is on Clinton Street (New York Route 354) 0.1 miles east of Union Road (New York Route 277), on the right when traveling east.

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Major General Jesse Lee Reno

1823-1862

El Reno namesake born in Wheeling, West Virginia. Reno was a 1846 graduate of West Point Military and thrice decorated hero of 1846 war with Mexico. He was promotoed to Brigadier General at the start of the Civil War. Reno ...

Yukon Czech Hall

(Bohemian Hall)

Established in 1899 by early Czech settlers who were members of Sokol Karel Havli?ek Lodge and Western Fraternal Life Association Lodge Jan Žižka Np. 67. Original structure replaced in 1925. Focal point of Czech, social and musical functions in ...

Mann Manor

This Property Has Been

Placed On The

National Register

Of

Historic Places

By The United States

Department Of The Interior

Marker is on West Main Street west of South Floral Avenue, on the left when traveling west.

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