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Postville Court House Site

CITY:

Lincoln

COUNTY:

Logan

DEDICATED BY:

State of Illinois

DEDICATION DATE:

January 1, 1934 at 6:00:00 AM

The marker is located in Lincoln at Fifth Street and Madison Street (US 66).

From 1839 to 1848 the seat of Logan County was Postville, which centered on the courthouse located on this site. In this structure Abraham Lincoln, a member of the traveling bar of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, attended twice a year.

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