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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Springfield, Illinois. Official Website Springfield is the capital of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County. History Wikipedia Springfield was originally named "Calhoun", after Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina. The land that Springfield now occupies was settled first by trappers and fur traders who came to...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Sangamon County, Illinois. Official Website History Sangamon County was formed in 1821 out of Madison and Bond counties. The county was named for the Sangamon River, which runs through it. The origin of the name of the river is unknown; among several explanations is the theory that it comes from the Pottawatomie word Sain-guee-m...
Calvary Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois, dates to 1857, when land was purchased by Bishop Juncker, then Bishop of Alton, in order to conform to a city ordinance passed in 1856, which prohibited further establishment of burial grounds within the city of Springfield. The land purchased by Juncker was utilized by the German and Irish parishes of Sts. Peter and Paul and the former St. Mary’s, each...
Oak Ridge Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Illinois at 365 acres and is the second most visited cemetery in the United States. Home of President Abraham Lincoln's Tomb, this active cemetery's first burial was in 1858. The cemetery was officially dedicated on May 24, 1860. Oak Ridge is the burial home of many settlers of Springfield and Sangamon County and state and local officials. For many...
Wikipedia he University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS) is a public university in Springfield, Illinois, United States. The university was established in 1969 as Sangamon State University by the Illinois General Assembly and became a part of the University of Illinois system on July 1, 1995. As a public liberal arts college, and the newest campus in the University of Illinois system, UIS is ...
Wikipedia =Camp Butler National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located a few miles northeast of Springfield and a few miles southwest of Riverton, a small town nearby to Springfield, in Sangamon County, Illinois.During the Civil War, Camp Butler was the second largest military training camp in Illinois, second only to Camp Douglas in Chicago. After President Lincoln's call for tr...