historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11RQ_lincoln-in-polo_Polo-IL.html
Abraham Lincoln was a guest in this house, August 15-17, 1856. His host was Zenas Aplington, founder of Polo. On Saturday, August 16, John D. Campbell and James W. Carpenter, who were law partners in Polo, joined Lincoln and Aplington in a drive b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11RI_the-galena-road_Polo-IL.html
In the early 1830's pioneer traffic moving north from Peoria crowded primitive trails and forced a direct route to Galena. In 1833, Levi Warner's state survey marked the Galena Road. It cut through this schoolyard. Private Abraham Lincoln passed t…