Lincoln's Big Jump « Choir the Proper Praise

There was even a plaque to Lincoln in the city park where I played as a boy, for the pioneer road from Vandalia to Lincoln's Springfield ran there. Cars with out of state plates parked in downtown Vandalia as tourists visited the statehouse . Every downtown drug store and restaurant ... Before it burned in 1969 the downtown Hotel Evans contained a mural depicting Vandalia as capital, with Lincoln and Douglas in the painting's foreground, their height differences notable. ...