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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW0M_abraham-lincoln-employed_Troy-IN.html
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Lincoln (1809-1865) lived northwest of here 1816-1830. Worked circa 1825 as hired hand for James Taylor. William Herndon, a Lincoln biographer, wrote that Lincoln told him it "was the roughest work a young man could be made to do." H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW0L_a-new-home-in-indiana_Grandview-IN.html
Do you want to experience the world of young Abe Lincoln? You've come to the right place. At Lincoln Ferry Park, just west of Troy, the Lincoln family arrived by ferry from Kentucky in 1816. Young Abe Lincoln walked these woods with his long, lank…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVYA_vietnam-honor-roll_Rockport-IN.html
War drew us from our homeland in the sunlit springtime of our youth.Those who did not come back alive remain in perpetual springtime —forever young — and a part of us is with them always.
Donald Harrison Ronald Kraus James Middleton…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVWW_revolutionary-war-honor-roll-spencer-county_Rockport-IN.html
In Honor of the Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Spencer County Indiana
(Row One) - - Thomas Blair · David Chancellor · Lodowich Davis · Abraham Hornbeck · James Jones · Thomas Jones
(Row Two) - - Zachariah…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVVM_abraham-lincoln_Rockport-IN.html
Marking Old Lower Landing where in 1828 - age 19 - Abraham Lincoln with Allen Gentry made his first flatboat trip to New Orleans. He saw slaves sold and said. "If I ever get a chance to hit that thing, I'll hit it hard".
In a very real sense of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVVK_site-of-rockport-tavern_Rockport-IN.html
In October 1844 Abraham Lincoln gave a speech at Spencer County Courthouse to promote Henry Clay, Whig presidential candidate. Lincoln, during his first trip to Indiana in 14 years, was a guest at the Tavern. Site first marked October 28, 1926.