Lincoln Correspondent

"The points you propose to press upon Douglas, he will be very hard to get up to" ):Lincoln letter to Henry Asbury, 1858). Originally a Kentucky Whig, Henry Asbury was one of the founders of the Republican Party in Illinois ...

Lincoln's Confidante

Quincy's Eliza Caldwell Browning and Abraham Lincoln first met in 1836. She was a new bride, and he had just received his law license. When Eliza discovered Lincoln's "great merits," the two established an easy rapport. Their nearly thirty-year friendship ...

The Alexander-Withrow House, ca. 1793

Historic Lexington

The Alexander-Withrow House is one of the oldest surviving structures in Lexington. Dating from ca. 1793, it was built by William Alexander one of the area’s first settlers and the town’s first postmaster. A large and distinctive building, with ...

Site of Cow Ford

This narrow part of the St. Johns River, near a clear freshwater spring was a crossing point for Indians and early travelers. The Indian name Wacca Pilatka, meaning "Cow's Crossing", was shortened by the English to Cow Ford, and Jacksonville ...

Delta Junction, Alaska

Northern Terminus of the "Alcan" Highway

This highway was constructed during World War II as a military supply route for interior Alaska Military and Airfields in 1942. 7 Army regiments and 42 Contractors and Public Roads Administrators working from Delta Junction ...

Gasconade County Courthouse

Gasconade County was created by an act of Missouri legislature, November 25, 1820. Daniel Morgan Boone, son of Daniel Boone, was appointed the first commissioner of the county to locate the site for the county seat and county jail. Gasconade ...

General Lee’s Beloved Traveller

In Memory of

General Lee’s Beloved Traveller

Rarely has an animal captured so much affection.

Traveller, first called Jeff Davis and later Greenbrier, was born in 1857 near Blue Sulphur Springs (now in West Virginia). In 1862, Lee purchased him and renamed ...

Randolph County Jail

Confining the "Bogus State Sheriff"

(Preface):On April 20, 1863, Confederate Gens. William E. “Grumble” Jones and John D. Imboden began a raid from Virginia through present-day West Virginia against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Taking separate routes, they later reported that ...

John Darby, Lot 14, 1786

John Wolfe, 1795

Jacob Shaffer, 1815

Thomas Reynolds

Robert McCoy

D.M.B. Shannon, 1856

Dr. John Kuhn, 1905

Dr. William Grove, 1950

James W. & Carol W. Smith, 1972

Marker is at the intersection of N. Main Street and E Seminary Street on N. Main Street.

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President Buchanan’s Home

1796 – 1829

Marker is on N. Main Street (Pennsylvania Route 16) north of E Seminary Street, on the right when traveling north.

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