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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSF6_old-state-cemetery_Vandalia-IL.html
The Illinois General Assembly authorized Governor Edward Coles in 1823 to convey to Vandalia one and one-half acres for a state burial ground. Here were buried four members of the legislature and several state officials who died while in office. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSF1_first-state-capitol_Vandalia-IL.html
The first capitol building owned by the State was erected on this site. It was a thirty by forty feet two-story frame structure. The Second and Third Illinois General Assemblies met here, the House on the first floor and the Senate on the second. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSEZ_site-of-ernst-hotel_Vandalia-IL.html
Here stood a two-story log building erected in 1819 for Ferdinand Ernst who brought the German colony to Vandalia. Named Union Hall, it was operated as a hotel. After Ernst's death in 1823 it was managed by E.M. Townsend, and from April 1825 by Fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSEP_second-state-capitol_Vandalia-IL.html
The second state capitol owned by the State was a two-story brick building erected here in 1824, using the walls of the first State Bank which burned January 28, 1823. Abraham Lincoln was a member of the House in the 1834-1835 and 1835-1836 sessio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSEO_site-of-charters-hotel_Vandalia-IL.html
John Charters operated a large tavern on this site from the late 1820's to November 1835. Under the name, "Sign of the Green Tree," it was operated by Thomas Redmond until 1838.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSEM_public-printer_Vandalia-IL.html
This is the site of a two-story frame building occupied by Robert Blackwell, State Printer 1818-1832, and publisher of the Laws of the United States. In 1823 he became publisher of the Illinois Intelligencer newspaper. The first periodical in Illi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSEL_flacks-hotel_Vandalia-IL.html
In 1836 Colonel Abner Flack took over the large three-story frame building which stood here and operated it under the name Vandalia Inn. In 1853-1854 it was the headquarters for Chief Engineer Charles F. Jones, in charge of construction of the Ill…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSEK_third-state-capitol_Vandalia-IL.html
The third capitol building owned by the state was restored as a memorial in 1933. It was the capitol from December 3, 1836 to July 4, 1839. Abraham Lincoln was a member of the House during the three sessions of the legislature held in this buildin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSEJ_cumberland-road_Vandalia-IL.html
Vandalia was the western terminus of the Cumberland or National Road which extended eighty feet wide for 591 miles from Cumberland, Maryland through Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. Illinois construction by the Federal Government began in 1811 and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSEF_madonna-of-the-trail_Vandalia-IL.html
N?S?D?A?R Memorialto thePioneer Mothersof theCovered Wagon Days
The Cumberland Road.Built bythe Federal Government.Was authorized by Congressand approved byThomas Jefferson in 1806.Vandalia marks thewestern terminus
At Vandalia, Abraham Linc…