Mill Site

For Carding and Fulling

Mill Built at an Early

Date by Malachi Whipple

William H. Ball

And Lyman Dwight

Marker is on Berne-Altamont Road (New York Route 156), on the right when traveling south.

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Breckinridge's Last Home

Built circa 1866, this house was occupied by John C. Breckinridge in 1874-1875. The former U.S. senator and youngest U.S. vice-president was also a Confederate general and secretary of war. After exile, he returned to Lexington in 1869 and resumed ...

German Evangelical Church, 1860

Under the brick veneer is the

framework of the original

German Evangelical Church, 1860.

Marker is at the intersection of Bridge Street and 11th Street, on the left when traveling east on Bridge Street.

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Colonel Orlin Thurston

Commanded Allen County Troops

Found dying Secrest

Saw Mill Owner. State Senator.

Founded Newspaper.

Abolitionist.

Marker is on 8th Street near Bridge Street, on the left when traveling north.

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Abel Secrest

Farmer Abel Secrest

was shot by Confederates

Oct. 14, 1861

after refusing to

give up his mules.

Marker is on 8th Street near Bridge Street, on the left when traveling north.

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Neosho River Log Town

Among scrub oaks along the Neosho [River], log town housed soldiers of the Kansas 9th

Marker is on 1st Street near Pine Street, on the right when traveling south.

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Confederate Soldier

was shot here Oct. 14, 1861, as he tried to remove Union flag.

Marker is at the intersection of Bridge Street and 9th Street, on the right when traveling east on Bridge Street.

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The Loughran House

Senate House State Historic Site

This Italianate style house was designed by John A. Wood and built in the early 1870s for Dr. Robert Loughran (1834 – 1899) as an office and residence. A surgeon during the Civil War, Dr. ...

The Evolution of the Senate House

Senate House State Historic Site

Wessel Ten Broeck, a Dutch immigrant to New York, built and owned what would become the Senate House. Although only portions of his 1676 house remain, Ten Broeck’s residence was probably a modest stone house ...

Major's Hall

(Plaque 1)

Major's Hall

Erected 1852 by

William Trabue Major

Razed 1959(Plaque 2)

Illinois Republican Party

born in Major's Hall

I have supposed myself since the organization of the Republican Party at Bloomington, in May 1856, bound as a party man by the platforms of the party ...