A Connecticut Minuteman’s Homestead

A Connecticut

Minuteman’s Homestead

At 139 North Street lived Revolutionary War “Minuteman” John Downs (1745 – 1819). A “minuteman” was a patriot who, with the local militia, would respond quickly to an alarm. With musket in-hand they were ready “in a ...

The Railsplitter Candidate

The City of Decatur was chosen as the site for the 1860 Republican State Convention with Abraham Lincoln as the most prominent Republican present. As the convention delegates were beginning to take their first, formal balloting, Richard Oglesby, future three-term ...

Choosing a President

In February 1860 the Illinois State Republican Central Committee met in Springfield, Illinois. There the Committee selected Decatur as the site for the upcoming State Republican Convention. The site selected for the Convention was located on South State Street and ...

Birthplace of the Grand Army of the Republic

In a second floor room on this spot the Grand Army of the Republic was organized April 6, 1866, by Dr. Benjamin E. Stephenson.This tablet is placed by The Department of Illinois Woman's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army ...

United Church

First built in 1873 as

The Second Baptist Church

Federated in 1947, became

United Church Presbyterian

in 1952

Marker is on Hudson Avenue (U.S. 4), on the right when traveling south.

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General Gates Headquarters

Site of

General Gates

Headquarters

previous to surrender of

General Burgoyne

Oct. 17, 1777

Marker is on U.S. 4, on the left when traveling south.

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To the Battlefield

?   1777

Marker is at the intersection of New York Route 32 and Lohnes Road, on the left when traveling south on State Route 32.

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Let Us All Be United

By 1856 Abraham Lincoln had realized that his former political party, the Whigs, was in ruins. The political landscape had changed to the point that Lincoln accepted an invitation to attend an Anti-Nebraska Editors Convention held at the Cassell House ...

Gates Headquarters

Saratoga

Oct. 7, 1777

Headquarters

of

General Horatio Gates

The gift of

George M. Pullman

Marker is on New York Route 32, on the left when traveling west.

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The Richard J. Oglesby Mansion

A three time Governor of Illinois

A Major General in the Civil War

A United States Senator

Marker is at the intersection of West Williams Street and North Edwards Street on West Williams Street.

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