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RE: Extra Credit Questions - mbgross - 06-01-2025 06:01 AM

Is it the place where Lincoln advised an abused woman, on trial for murdering her husband, that if she was thirsty, she might try the water in Tennessee because he heard it tasted good there. She later escaped.

On second thought, was it the location of the "Almanac" trial?

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 06-01-2025 09:38 AM

I am sorry, Mike, but neither guess is correct.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 06-01-2025 12:11 PM

Is it where Lincoln and a few others jumped from a window to prevent a quorum ?

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 06-01-2025 12:41 PM

Kudos to Michael! As an Illinois state legislator Lincoln once jumped from a window of the Second Presbyterian Church, the temporary location of the Illinois House of Representatives, in December 1840. The motive of the uncommon action, for which Lincoln suffered considerable humiliation, was to break a quorum when Democrats called for a vote to cripple the Whig-favored state bank. Two other legislators, Joseph Gillepsie and Asahel Gridley, jumped with Lincoln.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 07-16-2025 12:12 PM

Why is there a historical marker here?

[Image: Watizthis.jpg]

RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 07-16-2025 12:24 PM

Looks pretty flat down there. Does it have to do with New Salem?

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 07-16-2025 01:36 PM

Joe, it's not in Illinois.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - STS Lincolnite - 07-16-2025 02:15 PM

Hmmm. Not in Illinois.

After Lincoln served in the Blackhawk War, he was granted some land in Iowa (I think in Crawford and Tama Counties).

Does this marker indicate/commemorate one of those parcels of land?

RE: Extra Credit Questions - Gene C - 07-16-2025 03:12 PM

Farm where Lincoln and his family moved to from Indiana ?

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 07-16-2025 03:38 PM

Kudos, Scott!

[Image: LincolnLandGrantMarker.jpg]


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 10-28-2025 09:25 AM

No googling please.

Who lived here?

[Image: someoneshome.jpeg]


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 10-28-2025 12:29 PM

Is that the original Springfield home of Abraham and Mary before the renovations?

Best
Rob

RE: Extra Credit Questions - STS Lincolnite - 10-28-2025 01:26 PM

(10-28-2025 09:25 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  No googling please.

Who lived here?

[Image: someoneshome.jpeg]

Abraham, Mary, and Robert Lincoln?

That looks like the 4th street cottage in which they lived after they moved out of the Globe Tavern and before they purchased their home at 8th and Jackson streets.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 10-28-2025 02:39 PM

Very good, Scott! It's the cottage at 214 South Fourth Street in Springfield where the Lincolns lived for a short time when Robert was a baby. The family rented the cottage in the fall of 1843 and stayed there until May 1844 when they moved into the home at Eighth and Jackson. The rent for the cottage was $100 a year.

Rob, regarding the Lincoln Home prior to renovations, here's a sketch from Wayne Temple's By Square and Compass: Saga of the Lincoln Home, p. 33. The drawing was made by Xavier C. Meyer.

[Image: lincolnonestory.jpg]


RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 10-29-2025 05:37 PM

When and why did Lincoln refer to the possibility of him migrating to Russia?