Minister Who Married Lincoln

Here lived Rev. Charles A. Dresser, rector of Antrim Parish and builder of St. Mark's Church, 1828. Dresser left this parish in 1835 for Peoria, Illinois, whence he moved to Springfield. There he married Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd, November 4, 1842.

Marker is at the intersection of Halifax Road (U.S. 501) and Greens Folly Road (Virginia Route 654), on the right when traveling north on Halifax Road.

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