The Feb. 16, 1861, visit was while Lincoln was enroute to his first inauguration and while the nation was on the brink of civil war.

Crews started construction of the Lincoln Memorial on Abraham Lincoln’s 105th birthday — Feb. 12, 1914. The memorial was built on a plot of land that needed to be drained and then filled ...

The memorial is visited by over six million people a year. The Lincoln Memorial honors Abraham Lincoln the 16th President of the United States. President Lincoln served during the Civil War ...

The Land of Lincoln Honor Flight is set to commence its 2025 flying season with Mission #73 on April 15. This mission will ...

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Legins-Costley lived for many years in Pekin, where she is commemorated with a downtown memorial. A Pekin woman who gained her freedom from indentured servitude with the help of Abraham Lincoln ...

For more than a century, Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) has stood as a beacon of higher education, evolving from its ...