Beginning of the Lincoln Circuit Trail
A National Historic trail of the Boy Scouts of America established in 1963 as part of the circuit traveled between Urbana and Danville, Il. By Abraham Lincoln on the Eighth Judicial District in 1847 - 1859.
The trail traverses 16 miles easterly from this point, deviating North from U. S. 150 through strip-mine pollywogs to campgrounds in Kickapoo State Park near the intersection of the Middle Fork of the Vermilion River system with Vermilion Co. 32.
Dedicated in 1979 to
Prof. H. W. Scott John F. Buford
University of Illinois-Urbana and Eagle Scout BSA Troop 40
Father of the Trail St. Joseph, Il
BSA Arrowhead Council 117 — Champaign, Il
Marker is on Homer Lake Road (County Route 14) west of South Homer Lake Road (County Route 2575 E), on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
