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Across Lake County, history buffs and President Abraham Lincoln fans have chipped in to help decorate the funeral train car that is being built in honor of the 150th anniversary of his assassinatio… ...
The Minnesota man inherited a window frame from the historic train car that carried President Abraham Lincoln's body back to his hometown in Springfield, Ill., after the 1865 assassination.
That grass fire on March 18, 1911, not only consumed 10 blocks of early Columbia Heights, it razed the funeral train car that had carried slain President Abraham Lincoln's body home from ...
The Lincoln funeral car, photographed in Chicago in 1865. Library of Congress "A presidential car was under construction at the time of the assassination," said Reed.
A reproduction of the hearse that carried Abraham Lincoln’s body to Oak Ridge Cemetery on May 4, 1865, and a replica of the funeral train car that carried his body from Washington to Springfield ...
ELGIN, Ill. – A replica of Abraham Lincoln's funeral train car will not recreate the trip that brought the president's body back to Springfield, Illinois, from Washington. The 2015 Lincoln ...
HAMMOND | The nearly 8,000 people who boarded the 2015 Lincoln Funeral Train exhibit in Hammond over four days last week have some local leaders considering a return, and perhaps ...
The replica of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral rail car will be parked outside Isringhausen Imports, 229 E. Adams St., when it comes to Springfield for the re-enactment of the former president’s ...
The funeral train of President Abraham Lincoln rests under a decorative archway at the Monon Station in Michigan City on May 1, 1865. Along with several major cities, Michigan City was one of the ...