Traveling the Lincoln Highway

Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor

Carved out of a remote wilderness, McConnellsburg served the flood of travelers heading west in the late 18th century. Taverns, like the Fulton House, sprang up all along the packhorse trail from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh.

Whether by foot, ...

Lincoln Visits Strevell

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While sitting up late the night of January 27, 1860,

in the Pontiac home of Jason

Strevell, Abraham Lincoln

predicted he would be nominated for the vice presidency of the young Republican party. In a letter to his son ...

Lincoln Speaks at Church

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Abraham Lincoln spoke in

the little Presbyterian Church

on the northwest corner of

Livingston and Mill streets on

Jan. 27, 1860, shortly before being nominated for the presidency at the Republican National Convention in Chicago on May 16. Lincoln had received ...

Lincoln Stranded Here

Looking For Lincoln

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In February 1855,Abraham Lincoln was with a group of sixty passengers stranded in Pontiac after a train, bound for Springfield from Chicago, became mired in a snowdrift just this side of where the village of Cayuga ...

Lincoln Slept Here

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When Abraham Lincoln rode into Pontiac that rainy day, he found few cabins, and those were so scattered and hidden among the clumps of bushes that they were rendered almost invisible. Lincoln stayed overnight in a log ...

Lincoln Wins His Case

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Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas were opposing attorneys during Livingston County’s first regular term of circuit court, which was held on this site May 18 and 19, 1840, in Henry Weed’s log cabin. In the first ...

Lincoln In Petersburg

Tears at Fort Mahone

On the morning of April 3, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln awoke at City Point to the news that Petersburg had fallen just hours before. He immediately arranged to visit the city and meet with Gen. Ulysses S. ...

Lincoln In Petersburg

Presidential Visit to Centre Hill

At noon on April 7, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and his party left City Point for Petersburg in a special train on the newly repaired City Point Railroad, arriving in the city half an hour later. ...

Lincoln's Danville Friends

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The center of town, during the time of Lincoln’s years in Danville, was located in a range from Franklin Street in the West, to Washington Street in the East, bordered by Harrison Street in the North ...

Lincoln's Dentist

Americans had poor oral hygiene in Lincoln's era.

Rotten teeth and foul breath were common (halitosis was not yet a social evil). Calomel frequently prescribed by doctors for fevers caused many people to have loose teeth. Dentistry was plagued by ignorance ...