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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW4W_abraham-lincoln-was-a-guest-in-1844_Rockport-IN.html
Site of Rockport Tavernwhere Abraham Lincolnwas a Guest in 1844
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Sponsored by the RockportBusiness and ProfessionalWomen's Club — 1995
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW2I_a-rocky-beginning_Rockport-IN.html
James Lankford settled in the Rockport area in 1808, moving his wife and daughter into a cave under the bluff overlooking the Ohio River. Other settlers moved into the lowland that became downtown Rockport (originally dubbed Hanging Rock). By 1818…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW22_a-visit-home_Rockport-IN.html
In October, 1844 Abraham Lincoln saddled up his horse and set out from Springfield, Illinois, for a trip back to his boyhood home in Spencer County, Indiana. It had been 14 years since he had left, and his term as a state legislator was over. He w…
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.