Lincoln's Honored Friend

"Archie Williams was one of the strongest-minded and clearest-minded men in Illinois" (A. Lincoln). Lincoln and his friend Archibald Williams had much in common. Both were born in Kentucky and moved to Illinois. Williams coming to Quincy in 1829. Like ...

Fair-Rutherford House / Rutherford House

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The Fair-Rutherford House, a Greek Revival cottage, stood here from ca. 1850 until it was demolished in 2004.

Built for Dr. Samuel Fair, it passed through several owners before 1905, when William H. Rutherford (1852-1910)

bought and enlarged ...

A Quincy "Copperhead"

Singleton had succumbed "Hook and Line" to the Democrats, stated Lincoln in 1854. He and Quincyan James W. Singleton had been fellow Whigs and disciples of Henry Clay. They had campaigned together in 1848 during Whig Zachary Taylor's successful run ...

Silver Mountain

Settled by Scandinavian miners in 1858, - then called Kongsberg. Renamed Silver Mountain in 1863 and made county seat of Alpine County Aug. 11th, 1864. During the Sixties, the town supported a post-office, two newspapers, express office, telegraph office and ...

The Rigging Loft

On this site on William Street formerly Horse-and-Cart Street stood The Rigging Loft where members of the first Methodist Society in America worshipped from 1767 - 1768. Among the original members were Philip Embury, Barbara Heck, Captain Thomas Heck. On ...

William H. Spencer High School

On this site, on November 29, 1930, the first local high school for colored students opened. The school was the result of a grant from the Rosenwald Foundation and was named in honor of William Henry Spencer, Supervisor of the ...

Lorado Taft (1860 - 1936)

Sculptor of the Debate Memorial

Best remembered for his spectacular fountains, Lorado Taft was the creator of some of our nation's outstanding monuments. Some of his most significant include Blackhawk (Oregon, IL, 1911), The Columbus Memorial (Washington, D.C., 1912), The Fountain ...

Mantooth Farm

Members of the Mantooth family came to Angelina County in 1858. Albert Edwin (Eddie) Mantooth (1874-1969) was born in Homer, Angelina County, to Albert and Mary Richard Hall Mantooth. In 1897, Eddie married Sarah Annie Atkinson Mantooth (1879-1914). In 1909, ...

David Crockett's Last Home

This pioneer finally settled on a farm about 4 1/2 mi. east. Following his last defeat for reelection to Congress, he went to Texas, where he died in the Alamo massacre. This cabin, restored partley from timbers of his orginal ...

C.S.A. Camp Trenton

Located 1.4 miles west of this site, Camp Trenton was a Confederate Army training camp in Gibson County. Colonel M. R. Hill's 47th Tennessee Infantry departed from Camp Trenton by train on Sunday, April 6, 1862, and arrived at the ...