Abraham Lincoln
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
N 38° 22.611 W 088° 04.077
16S E 406717 N 4248168
Where Lincoln spoke in Edwards County.
Waymark Code: WM3A8A
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 03/04/2008
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member Special.Ed
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Marker Erected by: The Illinois State Historical Society.

Marker Text:
Spoke in the oak grove of General William Pickering north of here in the presidential campaign of 1840. He was stumping Southern Illinois as a Whig elector for General William Henry Harrison in the Tippecanoe and Tyler Too campaign. In 1861 Lincoln appointed Pickering Governor of Washington Territory.

County: Edwards.

Dedication Date: 1956.

Location: IL-15, in front of Albion Schools, just W. of town.

Website: Not listed

Historical Society: Not listed
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