Springfield Tour

[Rob Wick]

Eva,

Where the Old State Capitol, the Lincoln/Herndon Law Offices, the Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, the Lincoln Home and other buildings are located is called the Central Springfield Historic District. Where the Dana-Thomas and Vachel Lindsay homes are located is in the neighborhood called Old Aristocracy Hill.

The neighborhood around Lincoln's home has been shut to traffic and an attempt has been made to restore it to the appearance it had when Lincoln lived there. Some of the homes surrounding the Lincoln home are open to the public and contain some Lincoln mementos. The only thing which makes it difficult for me to imagine what it must have been like, is the traffic noise which goes up and down the surrounding streets. Of course, there's no way the streets could be shut down, but one has to strain to use their imagination on how it must have felt in that day.

Best
Rob

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(10-14-2013 07:06 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Your photos, Rob, are the next best thing to my being in Springfield and New Salem. However, I almost fell off my chair when I saw the tombstone for Ann Rutledge and saw that her middle name was "Mayes." That was my maiden name, except that the U.S. Army had dropped the "e" from the name when all of my uncles - save one - and my father joined the service. I suspect that it might have been Miss Rutledge's mother's maiden name??? Anyone have any genealogy on her that could answer that question and where the family originated? So far as I can tell, my family started in southern Virginia or northern North Carolina.

Her mother's maiden name was actually Miller. Although it's not certain he was born there, the family did live in South Carolina before moving to Illinois.

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Rob