Stuart and Lincoln Law Office

Before he moved to Springfield Abraham Lincoln came to the law office of John Todd Stuart to barrow law books.

Henry E. Dummer---Stuart;s partner at the time---recalled that the "uncouth looking" Lincoln said little and seemed timid. Yet when he did ...

Florville's Barber Shop

William Florville was Lincoln's barber for twenty-four years.

Florville, or de Fleurville ("Billy the Barber" to his white customers), was born in Haiti of French ancestry. He came to America at age fifteen and was a barber's apprentice in Baltimore.He moved ...

Soviet War Memorial

Tiergarten

1941 – 1945

English text:

Eternal Glory to the heroes who fell in the struggle against the German fascist invaders for the freedom and independence of the Soviet Union. 1941 - 1945

Marker is on Straße des 17. Juni ...

Franklin Co. Fair

Held here since 1852 and described by L.I. Wilder in Farmer Boy. Marshalling site for two Irish Fenian invasions of Canada.

Marker is at the intersection of East Main St. and Raymond St. on East Main St..

Courtesy hmdb.org

M60 Main Battle Tank

The M60 Main Battle Tank was developed to take the place of the aging M48 Patton Tank. It began production in 1959 and included an improved 105mm Main gun instead of the 90mm and a 750 cu. in. diesel engine ...

Gold Furnace

A gold furnace was commonly used to separate mercury from the gold. In gold placer mining, in which small specks and veins of gold were often found in quartz, mercury was used to separate the gold from the quartz. This ...

Leeds Historic CCC Camp

In the depression year of 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt initiated the Civilian Conservation Corps. This program provided much needed employment for the nation's youth 18-25 years old. The men had to complete the 8th grade, and have 3-4 family ...

Lincoln-Era Fire Companies

Lincoln's Springfield was vulnerable to fire, Crowded wood-frame buildings, open flames in stoves, fireplaces, candles, and primitive gas lighting ineffective alarms, muddy streets, and inadequate water supplies---all combined to make fires potentially devastating. Springfield had its share of fires. In ...

Lincoln's Carriage Maker

Lincoln brought his buggy to Obed Lewis for servicing at his shop on the north side of Monroe Street between Sixth and Seventh Streets.

When Lincoln first arrived in Springfield riding a borrowed horse he wondered at the "great deal of ...

4 Patchin Place / e.e. cummings

4 Patchin Place

One-time home of “Poet and Painter” e.e. cummings (d. 1962) and his wife, model and photographer Marion Morehouse (d.1969)

“—do lovers love? why then heaven and hell.

Whatever sages say and fool, all’s well”

Place here ...