If you haven’t yet looked at Tom and Taylor Davidson’s new interactive Lincoln Highway Legacy website, click this link: Lincoln Highway Legacy. It has an easy to navigate map chock…
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January 6, 1863 York Gazette President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. There are many websites that discuss the proclamation, looking at why it was important…
…Gettysburg, by the Historical Publication Committee of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce, 1963. 2.” Lincoln’s Trip to Gettysburg” by Frederick S. Weiser, in Lincoln Herald, summer, 1953, Vol. 55, No….
The only entrance to Fort Jefferson. The Lincoln prisoners were at one time housed in the area right above the portal. Edman “Ned” Spangler wrote letters to friends and relatives…
…Hufnagel, now 85, first told his son Arthur about the historic visit by Lincoln to Hanover Junction over 30 years ago. “That seemed to give the story about Lincoln’s changing…
…the Lincoln Conspiracy, including photos of John Wilkes Booth and an original playbill for Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865. From the York Press, Jan. 18,…
Illustration included in the November 1973 Free Press article Here is another Lincoln at Hanover Junction clipping. Lots of folks have strong feelings about whether the train that took President…
…the Civil War. He devotes at least half a dozen pages to the question of whether President Lincoln disembarked from the train that carried him to Gettysburg on November 18,…
Spengler/Spangler house, c. 1904 As I promised in my recent post on York and the Lincoln Conspiracy, below is more on the Sherwood School, where John Wilkes Booth was reportedly…
…convicted of conspiracy in the assassination of President Lincoln and sentenced to imprisonment for life. Spangler was found guilty only of aiding Booth’s escape, and his sentence was six years….