1858 Senate Race Here

Abraham Lincoln and incumbent Stephen A. Douglas spent ten weeks in 1858, contesting for the U.S. Senate.

During the grueling campaign, Lincoln made sixty-three speeches across the state; Douglas made 130. Both men spoke separately in Jacksonville. Lincoln arrived in Jacksonville ...

Soldiers of the World War

Legion Memorial Bridge

In memory of

Charles Wesley Avars · Percy J Bates · Stanton K Berry · Martin F Bowles · Albert B Carstedt · Ocal Chapman · Jesse E Crisp · Clay Dotson · Paul H Graves · Cass Hale ...

Lincoln and Grierson

Abraham Lincoln met Benjamin H. Grierson when the two campaigned for the Republican Party. Grierson, a merchant, music teacher, and musician, even wrote a song for Lincoln's presidential campaign in 1860, with the chorus:

"So clear the track--get out of the ...

Whig Rivals and Friends

A native of Kentucky, John J. Hardin moved to Jacksonville in 1831 when he was twenty-one. Like other young men of their generation. Hardin and Abraham Lincoln served in the Black Hawk War. Both men were lawyers and Whig politicians ...

The Civil War Governor

Richard Yates moved from Kentucky to Jacksonville in 1831. Four years later he became the first graduate of Illinois College. Abraham Lincoln and Yates admired Henry Clay and actively supported the Whig Party. Both strongly opposed Stephen A. Douglas and ...

Greene Vardiman Black

G.V. Black, father of modern dentistry, was born in 1836 on a farm near Winchester, Illinois. He studied medicine and dentistry and in 1857 began his practice of dentistry in Winchester. After serving in the Civil War, he resumed dental ...

Bridgeforth High School

Though black public education existed in Giles County by 1869, Bridgeforth was the first black high school. Designed by America's first black architectural firm, McKissack and McKissack, which had the local roots, and named for black educator J. T. Bridgeforth, ...

In Memory of Perry L. Johnson

July 21, 1908 – October 8, 1986

In memory of Perry L. Johnson, of Bleckley County, Georgia who at age 36 while serving as a Corporal in the United States Army during WW II, single handedly captured fifteen German soldiers at ...

Secondary Industrial School

Side 1:

Proposed in 1904 by Carleton B. Gibson, Columbus School Superintendent, the Secondary Industrial School is regarded as the nation’s first public coeducational industrial high school. G. Gunby Jordan, then President of the School Board, and his son R. C. ...

Fricke Brewery

Fricke Brewery

934-936 South Tenth Street

c. 1865

is listed in the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

8th Street Historic District

Manitowoc, Wisconsin

Marker is at the intersection of South 10th Street (U.S. 10) and Washington Street (U.S. 151), on the right ...