Illinois: Illinois State Historical Society
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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11RQ_lincoln-in-polo_Polo-IL.html
Abraham Lincoln was a guest in this house, August 15-17, 1856. His host was Zenas Aplington, founder of Polo. On Saturday, August 16, John D. Campbell and James W. Carpenter, who were law partners in Polo, joined Lincoln and Aplington in a drive by carriage…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11RT_a-stone-arch-bridge-on-the-galena-road_Lanark-IL.html
The Stone Arch Bridge that stands to the east of the present highway was on the Galena Road, once the most important trail in northern Illinois. Along this route innumerable people streamed northward to the lead mines near Galena every spring and many retur…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11SP_helen-scott-hay_Savanna-IL.html
Helen Scott Hay, famous Red Cross nurse, was born near Lanark in this county. She was a graduate of Savanna High School, Northwestern University in Evanston, and the Illinois Training School for Nurses in Chicago, where she was later Superintendent. Before …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1254_atlanta-public-library-museum_Atlanta-IL.html
The Atlanta public library was founded in 1873 by public spirited citizens who realized the importance of books. In 1973, the museum was added for the purpose of preserving Atlanta's heritage. In 1979, this octagonal structure was listed on the National Reg…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1255_deskins-tavern_Lincoln-IL.html
On this site Dr. John Deskins erected a tavern in 1836. Abraham Lincoln, David Davis and other lawyers frequently stayed overnight here while the Eighth Judicial Circuit Court was in session at the Postville Court House. The judge, lawyers, litigants, witne…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM12WB_mentor-graham_Petersburg-IL.html
"I think I may say that he was my scholar and I was his teacher." At New Salem, Lincoln read Graham's books and in 1833 studied grammar and surveying. Teacher in Kentucky and Illinois more than fifty years, Graham died in South Dakota. In 1933 his remains w…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1330_greene-vardiman-black_Jacksonville-IL.html
G.V. Black, father of modern dentistry, was born in 1836 on a farm near Winchester, Illinois. He studied medicine and dentistry and in 1857 began his practice of dentistry in Winchester. After serving in the Civil War, he resumed dental practice in Jacksonv…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM133N_big-eli-wheel-no-17_Jacksonville-IL.html
"I have discovered the machine I want to design and build, a portable 'Ferris Wheel'", W. E. Sullivan, 1893.A young man's dream became reality when W. E. Sullivan of Roodhouse, Illinois, designed and built a small, portable, revolving wheel, patterned after…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1391_the-old-jail_Carthage-IL.html
In the old Carthage jail which stands one block south of here, Joseph and Hyrum Smith, Prophet and Patriarch of the Mormon Church were killed by a mob on June 27, 1844. Two years later the Mormons withdrew from Illinois, where they had settled in 1839, to t…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM13MR_chandlerville_Chandlerville-IL.html
Founded 1832 by Dr. Charles Chandler of Rhode Island.