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Metamora Court House

CITY:

Metamora

COUNTY:

Woodford

DEDICATED BY:

State of Illinois

DEDICATION DATE:

January 1, 1935 at 6:00:00 AM

The marker is located in Metamora, on the southeast corner of the City Park, on the north side Mount Vernon Road (IL 116) at its intersection with Davenport Street.

As a member of the traveling bar of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, Lincoln came twice a year to Metamora, then the seat of Woodford County, to attend court in the courthouse which faces the north side of this park. David Davis, Robert G. Ingersoll and Adlai E. Stevenson were others who practiced here.

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