Richard Colbert Mason

Engineer · Scientist · Inventor

Library registered of 19 United States Patents, Inventor of many devises [sic] for the oil industry. Engineer for the U.S.A. during the World War-2. He conceived the idea of Christ’s statue atop Devils Tower which he ...

Tri-State Business Center

Quincy's brewers and brick makers, contractors and coopers, foundry and factory workers, and diverse other tradesmen made this Mississippi River community an important center of commerce in Lincoln's day. Quincy's businessmen, whose enterprises attracted business from Missouri, a slave state ...

Jappa Mason

1867 – 1962

Taught school for 76 years. Her pupils included Harry Sinclair, W.E. Disney, Martin Johnson, and many others of prominence. During a very useful and successful life she wrote the school laws for Oklahoma, was a foe of corruption ...

Steamboats and Railroads

Lincoln traveled to Quincy by stagecoach in 1854 after crossing the Illinois River at Naples. Lincoln's first documented visit was to support the Congressional candidacy of Archibald Williams and to attack the Kansas- Nebraska Act and its author, Stephen A. ...

Captain Richard C. Mason

PeaRidge Battlefield Arkansas 1862

Near this monument March 8, 1862, Captain Richard C. Mason of the 16th Arkansas Cavalry and [sic] was severly [sic] wounded and his horse killed. Mason was rescued by Frank Colbert a Chickasaw. Mason served for the ...

Lincoln's Carthage Speech

Abraham Lincoln defended himself against political attacks during much of the speech he delivered here on the courthouse grounds on October 22, 1858. Stephen A. Douglas, who had spoken here eleven days earlier, had accused Lincoln of being too cozy ...

Caney High School Stadium

Constructed by

The United States Government

Works Progress Administration

August 1938 – October 1939

First Night Game September 29, 1939

Caney 39 Altoona 0

Stadium Dedication October 27, 1939

Caney 19 Sedan 0

Attendance 1600

Total Cost $52,370.64

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Sponsored by

The Board of Education

A Works Progress Administration Project

1938

Marker is on 9th ...

Lincoln and Agriculture

Agricultural life has defined the very essence of Hancock County from the earliest days of its Anglo-American settlement. Lincoln, however, seemed indifferent to agriculture. Once he left his father's home, Lincoln never farmed again. But he came to respect the ...

Lebanon Veterans Memorial

In memory and appreciation of our men and women who served and sacrificed defending America's Freedom.

Marker is on Main Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The "Old Jail"

In the old Carthage jail which stands one block south of here, Joseph and Hyrum Smith, Prophet and Patriarch of the Mormon Church were killed by a mob on June 27, 1844. Two years later the Mormons withdrew from Illinois, ...