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• Directory:Crawfordsville, Indiana
  '''Crawfordsville-Montgomery County Visitors Center:''' 412 E. Main St., Crawfordsville, IN 47933; phone (800) ...ator during the Civil War. Lane was instrumental in bringing about Abraham Lincoln's presidential nomination. The colonel lived in the house until his death i
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• Directory:Illinois
  ...rn states seceded from the Union and the Civil War (1861-1865) began after Lincoln's inauguration. ...port, Jonesboro, Charleston, Galesburg, Quincy and Alton hosted the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates that stirred interest all over the country in the slavery i
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• Directory:William Henry Harrison
  | birth_place=[[Charles City County, Virginia|Charles City County]], [[Colony of Virginia]] | death_place=[[Washington, D.C.]]
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• Directory:Millard Fillmore
  | booktitle =Encarta}}</ref> (As this was three weeks after [[George Washington]]'s death, Fillmore was the first U.S. President born after the death of a ...[[bar (law)|bar]] in [[1823]] and began his law practice in [[Aurora, Erie County, New York|East Aurora]]. In [[1834]], he formed a law partnership, Fillmore
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• Directory:Kentucky
  Kentucky was made (1776) a county of Virginia, and new settlers came through the Cumberland Gap and over the ...pted to remain neutral. Gov. Beriah Magoffin refused to sanction President Lincoln's call for volunteers, but his warnings to both the Union and the Confedera
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• Directory:Maryland
  ...ate to join the new country, with Annapolis as the state capital. In 1791, Washington D.C. was created from land donated by Maryland, and became the nation's per ...e of Bladensburg, and burned the Capitol and other government buildings in Washington D.C. On Sept. 12, they attacked Baltimore and fired on Fort McHenry. The Am
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• Directory:Mississippi
  ...9). Natchez, the first territorial capital, was replaced in 1802 by nearby Washington, which in turn was replaced by Jackson in 1822. This encouraged growth of t ...e an intense debate between the Northern and Southern states. When Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the U.S. in 1860, many southerners feared he would
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• Directory:Tennessee
  ...h Carolina organized those settlements into Washington co.; Jonesboro, the county seat and oldest town in Tennessee, was founded two years later. ...r referendum on Feb. 9, 1861. However, after the firing on Fort Sumter and Lincoln's call for troops, the pro-Confederate element, led by Gov. Isham G. Harris
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• Directory:West Virginia
  ...to draft the state constitution that was approved in Apr., 1862. President Lincoln proclaimed (Apr. 20, 1863) admission of a new state, West Virginia, to be e ...s removed from the vault and is on display at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.
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• Directory:Abraham Lincoln
  '''President Lincoln’s oldest son was on the scene of three presidential assassinations. His f | name = Abraham Lincoln
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• Directory:Nevada
  ...rushed into statehood in 1864, with Carson City as its capital. President Lincoln (in order to get more votes to pass the Thirteenth Amendment) had signed th ...eatures the only round courthouse in the United States. Update: {the Bucks County Courthouse in Pennsylvania, constructed in 1960, is considered round. Now t
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• Directory:James Buchanan
  | successor = [[Abraham Lincoln]] ...was born in a [[log cabin]] at Cove Gap, near [[Mercersburg]], [[Franklin County, Pennsylvania]], on [[April 23]], [[1791]], to James Buchanan and Elizabeth
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• Directory:Indiana
  ...iana when he was 7 years old. He lived most of his boyhood life in Spencer County with his parents Thomas and Nancy. ...with its rotating cellblock was built in 1882 and served as the Montgomery County jail until 1972. It is now a museum.
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• Directory:John Quincy Adams
  | death_place =[[Washington, D.C.]] ...using his [[War Powers Clause|war powers]], a policy followed by [[Abraham Lincoln]] in the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] of 1863.
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• Directory:Franklin Pierce
  ...with her husband's involvement in the political world. She hated life in [[Washington, D.C.]], and encouraged Pierce to resign his Senate seat and return to [[Ne ...zed as a direct response to the bill. The election of Republican [[Abraham Lincoln]] would lead to declarations of secession in 1860 and 1861.
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• Directory:Martin Van Buren
  ...t of a series of eight presidents between [[Andrew Jackson]] and [[Abraham Lincoln]] who served one term or less. He also was one of the central figures in d ...ublican Party]], and was surrogate of [[Columbia County, New York|Columbia County]] from 1808 until 1813, when he was removed. In 1812, he became a member of
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• Directory:George Washington
  | name=George Washington | image=George-Washington.jpg
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• Directory:James K. Polk
  ...rch 4]], [[1845]] to [[March 4]], [[1849]]. Polk was born in [[Mecklenburg County, North Carolina]], but mostly lived in and represented the state of [[Tenne ...f the nation's territory. Polk secured the [[Oregon Territory]] (including Washington, Oregon and Idaho), amounting to about 285,000 square miles (738,000 km²)
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• Directory:Warren G. Harding
  ...ar I]]). He also led the way to world [[Navy|Naval]] disarmament at the [[Washington Naval Conference]] of 1921&ndash;22. ...y moved to [[Caledonia, Ohio]] in neighboring [[Marion County, Ohio|Marion County]], when Harding's father acquired ''The Argus'', a local weekly newspaper t
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• Directory:Ulysses S. Grant
  ...3, they moved to the village of [[Georgetown, Ohio|Georgetown]] in [[Brown County, Ohio]]. ...ved to several different posts. He was sent to [[Fort Vancouver]] in the [[Washington Territory]] in 1853, where he served as quartermaster of the [[U.S. 4th Inf
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