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Maysville, KY

Settled in 1784 by Edward and John Waller and George Lewis and renamed Maysville in 1787, the Ohio River landing first known as Limestone was one of the great gateways through which settlers poured into the trans-Appalachian West. It sat on lands linked to pioneer figures John May and the celebrated frontiersman Simon Kenton. From its riverbank, flatboats and travelers fanned out into the new country beyond the mountains.

Groesbeck, TX

Limestone County was created in 1846, with Springfield as its first seat until boundary changes and a courthouse fire shifted the seat to Groesbeck in 1873. After several interim buildings, the county hired Amarillo firms to design and build this structure, completed in 1924 for $300,000. A classical revival design with Beaux-Arts touches — columned windows, balustrades, and elaborate moldings meant to be admired from every side — it was built with then-modern reinforced concrete beneath its brick and terra cotta.

Lockhart, TX

Garland R. Lincecum—a cousin of Alamo hero James Bowie—left Mississippi with his wife Emmaline to settle land he bought here in 1847, the same year he joined a petition to create Caldwell County. His 1853 death made him the first burial in this family plot, which knit together the pioneer Lincecum and Roberts families through marriage and shared frontier life. The last interment came in 1938, closing nearly a century of one settler kinship network's story.

Cumberland Township, PA

This monument in the Gettysburg National Cemetery grounds commemorates Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, delivered on November 19, 1863, about 300 yards away during the cemetery's dedication. In barely two minutes and 272 words, Lincoln recast the war as a test of whether a nation 'conceived in liberty' could endure, and rededicated the living to 'a new birth of freedom.' The actual spot of the speech is marked nearby by the Soldiers' National Monument.

West Chester, PA · est. 1952

In February 1860, as the nation edged toward disunion, the first published biography of Abraham Lincoln came off a press in this West Chester building. Drawn from Lincoln's own notes, the campaign biography introduced a still little-known prairie lawyer to eastern readers just as he was emerging as a presidential contender. Such biographies were a key tool of 19th-century politics, shaping how voters met a candidate they would never see in person.

Progress, PA · est. 1994

Founded in 1827 by the Wesley Union A.M.E. Zion Church, this cemetery became a resting place for central Pennsylvania's Black community across generations. Among its graves are those of journalist and Civil War officer T. Morris Chester, educator and abolitionist William Howard Day, and more than twenty Civil War veterans. Each headstone marks a life that helped build free Black institutions in the decades around emancipation.

Gettysburg, PA · est. 2003

Founded in 1867 by the Sons of Good Will, Lincoln Cemetery gave Gettysburg's African American citizens and soldiers a dignified resting place they were otherwise denied. Roughly thirty veterans of the United States Colored Troops lie here — men who fought for the Union but were barred by segregation from burial in the town's famous National Cemetery. Later generations of Black veterans from the Spanish-American War through Korea joined them in ground first known as Good Will Cemetery and renamed for Lincoln in 1920.

Dallas, TX

In the depths of the Jim Crow era, Dallas needed a modern high school for its Black students, whose only option had been the overcrowded Booker T. Washington campus miles away. Backed partly by a New Deal Public Works Administration grant, Lincoln High School opened in January 1939 with 1,255 students and a striking Moderne building whose glass-brick tower became a neighborhood landmark. Under founding principal Tueria Dell Marshall, enrollment surged past 3,000, and the school produced more than 200 educators among its distinguished alumni.

Columbia, PA · est. 2003

In 1913 the Lincoln Highway Association stitched together existing roads into the nation's first coast-to-coast route, running from New York to San Francisco. The highway transformed American travel, and towns along it sprouted filling stations, tourist cabins, and roadside restaurants to serve the new motorists. In 1925 much of its Pennsylvania path was folded into Route 30.

Ames, IA

Conceived in 1913, the Lincoln Highway was one of the first roads to span the country coast to coast, and communities along its route raised markers dedicating the way to Abraham Lincoln. Iowa formed a key link in the corridor, carrying early motorists across the prairie in the dawning age of the automobile. Roadside markers like this one guided drivers and celebrated the pioneering spirit of the good-roads movement.

Springfield, IL · est. 1972

Lincoln bought this Springfield house as a young lawyer and rising politician. He left it in 1861 for Washington, telling neighbors he might never return — and he did not.

Exeter Township, PA · est. 1947

In 1733 Mordecai Lincoln—great-great-grandfather of President Abraham Lincoln—bought land in Exeter Township and built a stone house that still stands a little over a mile south of here. He served as a Berks County justice of the peace and moved in the same circle as the Boone family, being a friend of George Boone Jr., uncle of the pioneer Daniel Boone. Generations later, Lincoln himself wrote of his forebears from Berks County, Pennsylvania.

Washington, DC

Rising at the western end of the National Mall, the Lincoln Memorial honors the sixteenth president who led the nation through the Civil War and preserved the Union. Designed by Henry Bacon as a Greek-style temple and dedicated in 1922, its central chamber holds Daniel Chester French's colossal seated statue of Lincoln, flanked by the carved words of the Gettysburg Address and his Second Inaugural. The famous dedicatory inscription above his head proclaims that Lincoln's memory is enshrined forever in this temple and in the hearts of the people he served.

Honesdale, PA · est. 1968

In May 1859, the influential editor Horace Greeley reportedly met with political allies in this building to lay groundwork for an unlikely presidential bid by Abraham Lincoln. The maneuvering echoed the coalition-building that would carry Lincoln to the Republican nomination at the 1860 Chicago convention. Such backroom parleys were where the anti-slavery Republican Party's strategy took shape on the eve of the sectional crisis.

Lower Oxford Township, PA · est. 1967

Chartered in 1854 as the Ashmun Institute, this school was founded by the Rev. John Miller Dickey to provide higher education to men of African ancestry at a time when almost no such opportunity existed in America. Renamed Lincoln University in 1866, it opened its doors as an interracial and international institution. It became one of the nation's first degree-granting historically Black colleges, educating generations of leaders across the United States and Africa.

Metamora, IL

In the autumn of 1858, Illinois was the crucible of a Senate race that riveted the whole country, as Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas crisscrossed the state arguing over slavery's future in the western territories. This spot in Woodford County heard both men speak within days of one another that September and October. Though Douglas won the seat, the contest lifted Lincoln to national prominence and set the stage for the presidency two years later.

Gatesville, TX

Shortly after the Civil War, freed people in Coryell County founded a community four miles west of Gatesville and named it Lincolnville in honor of Abraham Lincoln. Experienced farmers and ranchers, the founding families lived off the Leon River valley's catfish and game while building the institutions long denied them—Bethlehem Baptist Church, organized in 1872, and eventually Lincolnville School No. 62, which served the county's Black children until rural schools were consolidated in 1943. Despite racial strife and frontier hardship, the community endured, and a few descendants of its founders remain today.

Bowie, TX

Named for the Lindale School District, this Montague County burial ground was established in 1880 when the Gibbins family sold a single acre to school trustees for four dollars. The graves gather generations of the farming families — Cooper, Griffin, Thomas and others — who settled the Lindale community, along with veterans of both World Wars. By the close of the century more than 250 graves marked the site.

Abilene, TX

Four months after his 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic, Charles Lindbergh touched down at Abilene's Kingsolving Field during a nationwide goodwill tour, drawing thousands of West Texans to welcome 'Lucky Lindy.' His 'Spirit of St. Louis' was ringed by National Guard troops while a parade of mayors and officials escorted him — alongside Mrs. Mildred Moody, wife of the governor — into town. In a brief speech Lindbergh praised Texas's terrain and weather as ideal for developing civil and military aviation before flying on to Fort Worth.

Town of Hempstead, NY

On the morning of May 20, 1927, a young airmail pilot named Charles A. Lindbergh lifted his overloaded monoplane off the muddy runway of Roosevelt Field and pointed it toward Europe. Thirty-three hours later, alone and sleepless, he touched down at Le Bourget outside Paris — the first person to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic. The crowds that mobbed him made him the most famous man in the world overnight.

Spearman, TX

At about 10:50 on the morning of September 24, 1934, a small monocoupe touched down in a pasture west of here, and the pilot taxied to a windmill and asked the startled resident if he could park in her back yard. He was Charles Lindbergh, flying from California to New York with his wife Anne and, low on fuel, choosing tiny Spearman precisely to dodge the crowds a big town would bring. Word spread anyway; schoolchildren were let out to glimpse the famous aviator before he took off two hours later.

Industry, TX

Opened in 1884 in the German farming community of Industry, the Lindemann Store became the social and commercial heart of the surrounding countryside. Farmers bartered produce for manufactured goods, a "peddle wagon" carried supplies out to the farms, and the arrival of the railroad in 1892 let the family expand into freighting. As the decades turned, the store shifted from general merchandise toward agri-business, staying in family hands throughout.

Industry, TX

Jacob Ott, a baker who emigrated from Worms, Germany, began building this two-story home with a carpenter neighbor in 1870, using the ground floor for his bakery. Ott later became a Methodist minister, and the property passed through owners including storekeepers Fritz Holze and Edward Lindemann, whose family lived here for decades. With its Queen Anne detailing and center-passage plan, the house links generations of the German community of Industry, Texas.

Lititz, PA · est. 1980

Founded in 1746 by the Moravian Church in the tight-knit religious community of Lititz, Linden Hall is the oldest girls' resident school in the United States. The Moravians, German-speaking Protestants known for their devotion to education, believed girls deserved rigorous schooling at a time when few Americans agreed. What began as a day school grew after 1794 into a boarding academy drawing students from far and wide, and was chartered under its present name in 1863.

Columbus, OH

On the north side of Columbus, in the working-class neighborhood of Linden, this memorial distills a community's gratitude into a single line: an honor roll of gratitude to "those who answered the call." Across the twentieth century, ordinary Ohioans left factory floors, classrooms, and front porches to serve in the nation's wars, and neighborhoods like Linden raised monuments so that their service would not slip out of local memory. A memorial like this turned a street corner into a place of return — the site where Memorial Day and Veterans Day gatherings kept faith with the people the neighborhood had sent away.

Lindenau, TX

German farmers put down roots on the DeWitt County prairie by 1891, and brothers Charles and Daniel Wild gave the place its homeland name, "Lindenau." A schoolhouse doubling as church and meeting hall anchored a full village—store, blacksmith, drugstore, post office, cotton gin, and a rifle club whose 1901 hall became the social heart of the community. When the railroad passed nearby in 1906, the whole town simply picked up and moved to meet it, a common fate before it faded after World War II.

Cuero, TX

Lindenau took root in 1891 where Sandies Creek meets the Guadalupe, when German immigrant brothers Charles and Daniel Wild saw in the big oaks a reminder of the linden trees of home. The burial ground that grew here — begun as St. John Lutheran Cemetery in 1905 — reflects the tight-knit Texas German farming world, from headstones cut in German to a separate children's section and the graves of veterans, lodge members, and victims of an early-1900s flu epidemic. Deeded to a community association in the 1970s, it now holds hundreds of the settlers' descendants.

East Hanover Township, PA · est. 1947

Lindley Murray was born in 1745 in a house along Indiantown Creek, where his father Robert briefly ran a mill. He grew up to become one of the most influential grammarians in the English-speaking world; his English Grammar, first published in the 1790s, was reprinted countless times and drilled into generations of schoolchildren on both sides of the Atlantic. From these modest Lebanon County beginnings came the author whose rules of usage governed classrooms for the better part of a century.

East Hanover Township, PA · est. 1947

Near this spot in 1745 Lindley Murray was born, the son of Robert Murray, who kept a mill here for a short time. Murray became the most widely read grammarian of his age, and his English Grammar shaped how students were taught to read and write for generations. A boy from the Pennsylvania backcountry thus became a household name in schoolrooms across America and Britain.

Greensboro, NC

In 1875 Greensboro opened the Lindsay Street School, the first permanent public graded school in North Carolina, in a building on this site. Graded schools sorted students by age and progress—an innovation that helped build the modern public education system in a state still recovering from the Civil War. Its founding marked an early commitment to tax-supported public schooling in the postwar South.

Scott County, KY

Around 1790, as settlers pressed into the Bluegrass country, Anthony Lindsay built a fortified station near a branch of the Elkhorn named for the frontiersman Charles Lecompte, who had ranged this land as early as 1775. Sited along an old buffalo trace that ran north toward the Ohio River, the station became a dependable stop for travelers and traders threading the wilderness. Lindsay lies buried a hundred yards from where his station once stood.

Warren, TX

When young W. C. Lindsey was dying of tuberculosis in 1898, he asked to rest on his family's own land, and his grieving parents opened this cemetery in answer. The family had come west from Mississippi in the 1840s, part of the great Anglo migration into the Texas frontier, and two of its sons marched off as Confederate soldiers—one of whom also served in the state legislature. Nearly fifty graves now cluster on the ground the Lindseys claimed as theirs.

Nacogdoches, TX

As Nacogdoches prospered in the 1890s, well-to-do families began building spacious homes on the heights overlooking the town. In 1901 the dry goods merchants Robert and Emily Lindsey — known locally for their patronage of the arts — raised this hilltop Victorian residence, designed by Dietrich A. W. Rulfs, the architect behind many of the area's grand houses. The home stayed in the Lindsey family until 1945 and was substantially enlarged in 1953.

Lufkin vicinity, TX

In 1899 the Southern Pine Lumber Company opened its first logging camp beside Lindsey Springs, whose reliable water made the site viable. Within a year the camp housed about 110 people and had its own store, school, and church, with a narrow-gauge railroad hauling logs to the mill at Diboll. By 1906 the marketable timber was cut out and the camp moved on — the boom-and-bust rhythm of the East Texas lumber industry in miniature.

Comanche, TX

Attorney and Confederate veteran Newton R. Lindsey built this limestone home in Comanche between 1881 and 1888, quarrying the stone nearby for walls up to eighteen inches thick. As county attorney he helped prosecute the notorious outlaw John Wesley Hardin for the murder of Charles Webb, and over a long career he served as legislator, mayor, railroad right-of-way agent, and district judge. In 1941 the house passed to rancher Melvin 'Shorty' Gore, whose family kept it until 1998.

Randolph, TX

Tennessee native Thomas Lindsey brought his family to Fannin County in 1837 and, in the late 1840s, gave four acres for a school and cemetery — the first burial here being one of his enslaved workers, a stark reminder of slavery's reach into the antebellum Texas frontier. The one-room schoolhouse beside the graves doubled as a community church, and when the railroad town of Randolph rose in 1887, a wooden sidewalk linked it to the old grounds. Pioneers, farmers, doctors, a church-founding minister, and veterans of several wars all rest here.

Lingleville, TX

Jacob C. Lingle laid out this Erath County town in 1884, and within a decade it had stores, blacksmith shops, a mill, a gin, and three churches. Though the railroad passed it by and a 1901 robbery and fire nearly leveled downtown, Lingleville rebuilt, and the 1919 oil strike at the nearby Desdemona field brought a fresh rush of people and business.

Lingleville, TX

Before permanent structures, summer revivals were held under brush arbors that had to be rebuilt each year—until Lingleville's Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian congregations joined forces in 1913 to raise this sturdy tabernacle, complete with hand-made benches. Beyond religious gatherings, it became a community meeting place, and it still hosts the annual Lingleville Homecoming. The open-air tabernacle preserves a distinctly rural tradition of ecumenical worship and neighborly gathering.

Palestine, TX

This family burial ground began in July 1887 when John and Mary Otelia Link buried two young daughters, both dead of diphtheria within a week of each other; with no Catholic cemetery nearby and the summer heat making distant transport impractical, the children were laid to rest near home. John Link joined them in 1888. The graves preserve the burial customs of rural nineteenth-century Texas—cooling boards, saltpeter, locally made caskets, and neighbors gathering afterward to share food and sympathy.

Palestine, TX

This Palestine home was built and continuously occupied by the family of early physician Henry Harnsbarger Link and his wife, Hypatia McGee. The first rooms, raised in 1852 when Texas was barely a state, now form the front hall of the house. One of the couple's three sons, Dr. H. R. Link, remodeled the residence in 1912, and it was named a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1972.

Houston, TX

Completed in 1912 for businessman John Wiley Link, this Neoclassical mansion was the first house finished in Montrose, the Houston subdivision Link himself developed. Oilman Thomas P. Lee bought it in 1916 and commissioned later alterations, giving the grand portico and ornate terra cotta its final form. Since 1947 it has served as the centerpiece of the University of St. Thomas.

Paducah, KY

Linn Boyd (1800-1859) rose from the Kentucky legislature to become one of the most powerful men in antebellum Washington, serving as Speaker of the U.S. House from 1851 to 1855. He authored the resolution to annex Texas and was even proposed for Vice President at the 1856 Democratic Convention. Elected Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky in 1859, he died before he could take office.

Trawick, TX

This cemetery has served the Linn Flat community since the mid-nineteenth century, its land deeded by John Polk in 1849 with the stipulation that he lie at its center. The earliest burial, unmarked, dates to 1837, while the oldest marked grave belongs to Polk's wife, who died in 1855. The town of Linn Flat, named for its groves of linn trees, thrived until the railroad bypassed it in 1903, but families have kept the burial ground and its annual homecoming reunions alive for more than a century.

Sutherland Springs, TX

Wilson County's oil story climaxed in 1955, when Olson Drilling struck oil on land leased from merchant Oscar W. Linne, part of the old Polley Plantation, opening the Linne Poth A Sand Field. The discovery dwarfed earlier strikes—including Maple Hughes's 1953 find on the Mueller property—and drew speculators chasing quick fortunes. Within a year the company drilled more than 30 wells, and the field yielded millions of barrels for decades to come.

Dayton, TX

Founded in the 1850s to serve the people of West Liberty—now Dayton—this thirteen-acre burial ground grew informally, its sections known by family names like Smith and Alford, with a separately reserved area for Black residents now called Acie Cemetery. Many graves are unmarked; the earliest documented is that of six-day-old Joseph Monroe Linney in 1880. Those laid to rest here include pioneer settlers, elected officials, and veterans of every American war from the Civil War through Vietnam.

Bay City, TX

By 1894 Matagorda County counted twenty African American schools serving more than 700 children, and Bay City's first — a donated one-room frame building — grew into a school named for Booker T. Washington. Among its long-serving teachers was Linnie McHenry Roberts, a Prairie View–educated educator who taught elementary classes for 32 years and earned wide respect for her care of students and community. In 1961 the school board opened a modern brick school and named it in her honor, a building that still stands as a tribute to her legacy.

Orange, TX

Joseph Linscomb moved from Louisiana to Texas around 1835 and served in a volunteer militia during the Texas Revolution before settling with his family in what became Orange County. He set aside an acre for a family burial ground, and his wife Denise was the first laid to rest there. Still active and tended by descendants, the cemetery holds more than a hundred marked graves.

Marion Center, PA · est. 2008

Born in Marion Center in 1826, Linton Park became one of America's most significant folk painters, capturing rural western Pennsylvania with an unschooled but vivid eye. His best-known canvas, "The Flax Scutching Bee" (1847), preserves a vanished frontier custom, while his logging scenes document the early lumber industry. Through his art, everyday labor and community traditions of the 19th-century backcountry survive as historical record.

Lipscomb, TX

The Texas Legislature created Lipscomb County in 1876 for the early statesman Abner Lipscomb, and about a decade later J. W. Arthur built a sod-and-wood store and post office that gave the county seat its name. The community formally established its cemetery by 1887, when the infant Fred Mehlhop was buried in its first marked grave, though older unmarked burials may lie nearby. County judges, officials, teachers, ranchers, and farmers rest here, a tie to the settlers who first developed the northeastern Panhandle.

Higgins, TX

Carved from Young and Bexar territories, Lipscomb County was created in 1876 and organized in 1887 as settlement pushed into the northeastern Texas Panhandle. It honors Abner S. Lipscomb (1789–1856), a jurist and statesman who served as secretary of state in President Lamar's cabinet, sat in the 1845 Constitutional Convention, and became an associate justice of the first Supreme Court of Texas.

Lipscomb, TX

Lipscomb County, organized in 1887 with the town of Lipscomb as its seat, at first governed itself from a one-story wood frame courthouse. When farms, ranches, and population surged in the century's first decade, voters approved bonds for a larger building, and Amarillo's William M. Rice designed and built it in the Classical Revival style through 1916, with an arched doorway and a Doric-columned pediment. Though the railroad bypassed Lipscomb and kept it the county's smallest town, the courthouse still dominates the townsite and serves as the seat of government.

Lipscomb, TX

Soon after Lipscomb was founded around 1886, residents met in 1887 to organize a school district, and the first classes met in a former Dunkard Church bought by the trustees. A two-story frame schoolhouse followed in 1908, and after lightning burned it in 1922 a brick building rose in its place, complete with library, office, and auditorium. The high school graduated its last class in 1941 before consolidation and rural decline finally closed the school in 1975.

Lipscomb, TX

After J. W. Arthur founded Lipscomb in 1886 and it became the county seat, residents organized the non-denominational Lipscomb Union Church in 1908 under its first pastor, the Rev. George A. McKee. The congregation first met in a one-room wooden building that a 1917 tornado shook partly off its foundation, only for members to repair it quickly. Through a century of a small and stable town, its women's Ladies Aid and youth Crusaders kept the church active in local and international relief work.

Denton, TX

Dr. Priestly Lipscomb and his wife Molly Binyon had this one-story frame cottage built by J.C. Thornton in 1895 on then-bustling West Oak Street — a modest Victorian Folk house among grander Queen Anne neighbors. In 1920 W.T. Doggett, superintendent of Denton's city schools, bought it and added Craftsman-style exterior touches, though the original bois d'arc pier-and-beam foundation survives unchanged. It was named a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 2016.

Lipscomb, TX

Founded in 1886 by settlers betting on a proposed Santa Fe railroad across the Panhandle, Lipscomb boomed almost overnight—seven businesses opened in its first month, and it became the seat of the newly organized county in 1887. It was named for Abner S. Lipscomb, a jurist and secretary of state of the Republic of Texas. A hotel, courthouse, school, and stores soon filled the young town, whose fortunes always hinged on the rails.

Dallas, TX

In 1870, two landowners gave five acres for a church and burial ground at Lisbon, then a small pioneer town south of Dallas. A combined church and school rose the next year, and after the school closed and the churches moved away, the site endured purely as a cemetery. Descendants of the founding families organized to preserve it in 1948.

Spur, TX

Built in the young railroad town of Spur, this home passed in 1916 to rancher George Edward Lisenby and later to the Campbell family, proprietors of a furniture and undertaking business that survives today as Campbell Funeral Home. Its deep eaves, hipped roof, and strong horizontal lines mark it as an example of the Prairie style that spread across small-town America in the early twentieth century.

Lissie, TX

This congregation began in 1906 as the Evangelical Association with nineteen charter members, dedicating a sanctuary and parsonage the following year. Through mergers over the decades it became an Evangelical United Brethren church and finally, in 1968, Lissie United Methodist Church, serving its small Wharton County community throughout.

Yorktown, TX

Amid the great mid-nineteenth-century European migration to Texas, a small group of Lithuanians settled around Yorktown in DeWitt County—so thoroughly absorbed into the larger German community that their story was long forgotten. The first family, David and Dora Stanchos, arrived about 1852, making them among the earliest documented Lithuanian immigrants to America, and roughly seventy more followed by 1874, most from the Gumbinnen region of East Prussia. They farmed, became citizens, fought on both sides of the Civil War, and left their dead in the Jonischkies Cemetery south of town.

Lititz, PA · est. 1967

Settled in the 1740s, Lititz became in 1756 a Moravian "Land Gemeine," a tightly knit country congregation that ordered the town's land, trades, and worship around its church. Count Zinzendorf, the Moravians' great patron, named it for a Bohemian town that had sheltered persecuted brethren back in 1456—binding this Pennsylvania village to centuries of European religious exile. The result was one of America's distinctive planned Moravian communities.