travel plans

[David Lockmiller]

(09-30-2021 09:12 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Here is a photo of the original grave of Ann Rutledge. This is at Old Concord Cemetery, and Joe Di Cola posted the photo on this forum in 2014.

https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussi...y#pid28694

Shouldn't there be a neon sign for the "father of Ann & co-founder of New Salem" above the grave marker? Or, in the alternative, something far less distracting. It is where Abraham Lincoln "wept over the grave" of Ann Rutledge.

[Gene C]

They took the neon sign down. It was disturbing all the tenants and apparently didn't meet code.

[mbgross]

Funny! Ann and Jack Armstrong's tombstones and that sign seemed out of place with the other tombstones and the surroundings. After New Salem, I went to Middletown, Il it had had a stagecoach inn used by Lincoln and another building that Lincoln frequented. Took a side trip to Beardstown to see the courthouse of the famous "Full Moon" trial. Along the route at the county lines stand a circuit marker and a plaque of Lincoln. Great art! Sometimes in the most far away, obscure places, really cool. It was also nice to travel roads that Lincoln took that has never been paved! I stayed every night at a state park and some of the trails and old roads reminded me of what the circuit might have looked like during Lincoln's time. Then went to Metamora to see the original courthouse that Lincoln attended. Love original Lincoln Courthouses! More later.

[RJNorton]

Here is a photo of George Dunlap's Tavern which was also known as the Stagecoach Inn in Middletown.

[mbgross]

Excellent, thanks!