City of Mount Pulaski

Mount Pulaski Township

Historical Society

Est. 1836                             Illinois                               ZIP: 62548

. . .           Abraham Lincoln practiced law here                  1849 - 1855 . . .                                                      . . . Abraham Lincoln practiced law here                  1849 - 1855 . . .                                                      . . . Abraham Lincoln practiced law here                  1849 - 1855 . . .                                                      . . . Abraham Lincoln practiced law here                  1849 - 1855 . . .Abraham Lincoln practiced law here                  1849 - 1855 . . .Abraham Lincoln practiced law here                  1849 - 1855 . . .

   [Mt. Pulaski Courthouse IL. State Historic Site]

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                Mt. Pulaski Township Historical Society Museum and Genealogy Center

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MP Market on the Hill [MP Township Historical Society Museum] [LC Genealogical-Hist Society]

[Abraham Lincoln in Logan County] [Logan County Genealogical & Historical Society]
[Mt. Pulaski Township Historical Society Museum] [LOOKING FOR LINCOLN] [Illinois State Historial Society]

City of Mt. Pulaski

History of Mt. Pulaski

Mt. Pulaski Township Hist Museum

1Mt. Pulaski schools 1-12

..1st MP Am. Leg Post 477 hall

Mt. Pulaski House Hotel - 1850's

Notable
Events

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Gen. Casimir Pulaski

Mt. Pulaski Courthouse Becomes a
School House (1857 - 1877)

Vaughn De Leath
start on Hollywood
Walk of Fame

HISTORY OF MOUNT PULASKI CLICK HERE

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Mt. Pulaski Courthouse Abe's Connection to
Mount Pulaski 1854 Cast-Iron
Tombstone Trial 1847 - 1848
8th Judicial Circuit Mt. Pulaski HS Burned Down
1911 (artist rendition)

Young Lawyer Abraham Lincoln rode this circuit for 12 years ...
Mt. Pulaski's Logan County Seat ... (1849 - 1855), then to the Lincoln County Seat (1856-1860)

Mt. Pulaski Township Historical Society Museum click

Stories, events & pictures from early 1930's thru early 70's

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Harry J. Wible, owner, publisher, photographer

1890's Surrey - Blade of
Yankee Windmill on wall 0rnate tin ceiling next to
skylight on 2nd floor 1900 Presidential
Republican Rally

161 pages of the
History of Mt. Pulaski

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                                                                                           A look at the 1848-1855 Logan County Seat
                                                                                                 MP Courthouse at Christmas Time


Mount Pulaski Courthouse Foundation

Looking-For-Lincoln Project 2009

CLICK HERE . Mount Pulaski Fall Festivals - "Deep in Tradition" CLICK HERE .
	Mt. Pulaski Old Settler's Meeting ... special guest: 21st Illinois Governor Joseph W. Fifer, 1889-1893, a Republican [Young Gov. Fifer - center; Jabez Capps to his immediate left]
	Picture taken by Marshall A. Duboce, Mount Pulaski Photographer ... given to H. J. Wible, publisher of the Mount Pulaski Times-News, by Paul Beidler, previous publisher.
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Brothers - Charles & Glenn Wagner frolicking in the great sleet Storm -
Dec 17 of 1925

[provided by June Rockwell]

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   Old Chestnut Photos
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Most of the Pictures are identified
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HISTORY OF MOUNT PULASKI [links] CLICK HERE

McCann Restaurant / Confectionery / Tavern Interior, Chestnut, Illinois, in 1930s

[provided by Jo Richner]

		Logan County Townships & Surrounding Counties
**Map of Mt. Pulaski (click above)**	**County & Mt. Pulaski <--mapquest Maps to Mt. Pulaski (click on either map, above)**

*2011* Mural depicting the Wright Bros. 1910 $10,000 bi-plane versus No longer a Courthouse, it became a school house, IL. Central offered both passenger & freight service for many years IL Central train race from Chicago to Springfield through Mount Pulaski City Hall & jail house, then a Post Office, etc.

Mt. Pulaski & Vicinity War Veterans One of Many Local Service Who Died in Service to their Country

Mt. Pulaski American Legion
Ryman-Fuiten Post 447

   Lt. Robert Horn, WWII               SGT. Carl Patterson, WWII CLICK HERE



Erected in 1895   -    Retired in 1987
Capacity: 57,000 gallons

Erected in 1987

Capacity: 300,000 gallons

   Information provided by: Emerson Horn - Illinois Licensed Rural Water District Director, deceased
(former Alderman of Mt. Pulaski Water and Sewer Committee)

"Winning Duo"
Les Werntz &
Claus Tanner

Multi-talented
Cletus Clobus 1939 World's Fair
Wheat Queen
Eileen Froehlich Illinois BB HOF -
Ed Butkovich Florence Stoll -
Kitchen Band Nashville Music Award
Winner - Jeff Schlitt 2008 Vintage
Fashion Show U of I All-Western
Forrest VanHook MP Schools Band & Vocal Instructors spanning
57 yrs.

Snippet from 2014
R & B Winter Quarterly
[LCGHS]
Logan County Fair Origins

in Annual Mount Pulaski Horse Shows 1912 - 1936

EARLY RECOLLECTIONS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN click here

by

ELIZABETH LUSHBAUGH CAPPS

Mount Pulaski, IL.   (1915)

[letter uncovered by James Hickey, former curator of the Lincoln Collection, Springfield, IL.]

Notable People
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Jabez Capps - Tri-Founder

G. W. Turley - Tri-Founder

Samuel Linn Beidler
1st MP Pharmacist

Prudence Ann Capps Beidle
1st-Born Girl of American Settlers in MtP Township

A. Lincoln Marker

A. Lincoln / Judge David David
Cast-Iron Tombstone Trial - 1854

A. Lincoln at the Mt. Pulaski House Hotel

Wilbur Wright Landed Here
During a $10,000 Race

"Vinegar Hill" bootleggers

Mt. Pulaski Yankee
Windmill Company

circa 1902

Mt. Pulaski Coal Mine Disaster
1906

Tank car Explosion - 1958

Mt. Pulaski Horse Shows

1912-1936
[became the Logan Co. Fair - 1937]

Annual Mt. Pulaski Fall Festivals

MPTGS - built in 1912 - razed in 1985

MPTHS - built in 1912 - razed in 2020

MPHS - new edition 2020

History of MPHS Basketball

4th in State - 2021

Cornland" celebrates Zip Code Day

Mt. Pulaski American Legion
Ryman-Fuiten Post 447

1933 MP Glee Club

175th Anniversary Viewpoint

Hilltopper BB - 4th in State
1936

John C. Mier, 99
Civil War Veteran

Vaughn De Leath
1st Lady of Radio

HeHerbert Ryman, Jr.
Lead Artist & Disney Imagineer

Harry "Abe" Hahn

Frank Capps
Inventor

Stubblelbine's Band
MPHS Music Teacher

Dr. Herbert Ryman, Sr.
Honorably Buried at Arlington

Donald Beidler
Inventor

Edwin Goodpaster
Editor & Bureau Chief: Time Magazine, Baltimore Sun

Richard & Delmar Stewart - Annual Lakefork Sale

2012 MPTHS Fundraiser
Maxine Downing &
Dolly Buckles

Phyllis Beccue - Chair of
annual Christmas
on Vinegar Hill

COVH Vendor Display

Roger Capps - great-great-grandson of Tri-Founder, Jabez Capps

Tom Romer - Vinegar Hill Brass Band

H.J. Wible, Mt. Pulaski
Times-News

S. Linn Beidler, Roy Carter,
Gene Connolley, Dean Shultz Drug Stores

Mrs. Florene Stoll, director of the MP Kitchen Band

Dick Romer - Master Clocksman, Collector