Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum
Highlights of a visit by USA Patriotism! to the must experience Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum ... a state-of-the-art facility with exacting historical detail and well-preserved artifacts that captivatingly tell the entire life story of our nation's 16th President ... including high-tech exhibits, interactive displays, and multimedia programs, as well as a reproduction of the White House as it looked in 1861. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum is located in Springfield, Illinois.
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USA Patriotism! ... 2015 Video Production
Filming and Photography by Colby Kuykendall
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Illinois State Capitol Tour in Springfield (HD)
We got a chance to tour the beautiful Illinois State Capitol building, which was constructed in 1868, in Springfield. It is a National Register of Historic Places. Across the street was a Martin Luther King statue, then at the grounds before the building itself, we saw a Abraham Lincoln and a Stephen Douglas statue. Inside the Illinois Statehouse, there was a lady statue representing the Illinois Welcoming the World message. The rotunda high ceiling was very impressive, as are the floors and stairs which are made of stone and marble.
Second and third floor had statues of former presidents highlighted by President Lincoln, plus a huge painting depicting George Rogers Clark negotiating with Native Americans at Fort Kaskaskia. There are also wall carvings depicting meetings of US personnel with native Americans in the past.
Overall this is a very impressive State Capitol Building that definitely deserves a visit. We also visited the Lincoln Home National Historic Site nearby- see our tour video of it here:
Illinois State Museum: Research and Collections Center
Many of the Illinois State Museum's 13.8 million objects are housed at the Research and Collections Center in Springfield, Illinois. Geology, Anthropology, Zoology and Decorative Arts collections all are housed here. Join Dr. Michael Wiant, Interim Director of the Illinois State Museum, for a behind-the-scenes tour of this facility that is not normally open to the public.
Top Tourist Attractions in Springfield: Travel Guide State Illinois
Top Tourist Attractions in Springfield: Travel Guide State Illinois
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Dana-Thomas House, Lincoln Tomb & War Memorials, Illinois State Capitol, Old State Capitol State Historic Site, Illinois State Museum, Camp Butler National Cemetery, Edwards Place Historic Home, Lincoln Memorial Garden, Illinois State Military Museum, Henson Robinson Zoo, Washington Park Botanical Gardens
Lincoln Tomb
A tour of the final resting place of President Abraham Lincoln ... the Lincoln Tomb ... designed by sculptor Larkin Mead.
Located in Springfield, Illinois at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Lincoln's Tomb is also the final resting place of Abraham Lincoln's wife Mary Todd and three of their four sons, Edward, William, and Thomas. The eldest son, Robert T. Lincoln, is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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USA Patriotism! ... 2015 Video Production
Filming and Photography by Colby Kuykendall
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Illinois Stories | Remembering Lincoln at IL State Museum | WSEC-TV/PBS Springfield
This special exhibit commemorates the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's assassination.
Lincoln Funeral Procession [complete] Re-enactment GoPro Video, Springfield, Illinois, May 3, 2015
Union Civil War re-enactors march in President Lincoln funeral re-enactment in Springfield, Illinois on May 3, 2015. This is the complete record of all the units that marched in the funeral parade to Oak Ridge Cemetery.
MUSIC: Civil War Era Funeral Marches & Dirges:
Funeral March (composer unknown)
Dead March in Saul by George Frideric Handel, HWV 53
Old One-Hundredth Doxology by Loys Bourgeois, Genevan Psalter
Abide with Me by William Henry Monk, hymn tune Eventide
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* CAMERA VANTAGE POINT: At 8th and Cook Streets, Springfield, Illinois — where the funeral procession turned west onto Cook marching towards the 4th Street turn north to Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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* EVENT: President Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession and Dead March” through the city streets of Springfield, Illinois to the receiving vault at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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* DATE: Sunday, May 3, 2015
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* START TIME: Noon
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* LENGTH of the PROCESSION: More than a quarter mile-plus
* PASSING TIME: About 10 minutes (avg.)
* MARCH PACE: 80 steps per minute (avg.)
* PROCESSION SPEED: 2.1 mph
* DISTANCED MARCHED: 3.2 miles from the OSCB to the receiving vault at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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* PROCESSION PARTICIPANTS: 1,200 Union Army reenactors from around the United States, bands and representative mourners.
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* COMPONENTS of the LINCOLN
FUNERAL PROCESSION
RE-ENACTMENT of MAY 3, 2015:
— Portrayers of Gen. U.S. Grant and Civil War generals * The 5th Michigan Regiment Band (leading) portrayed the U.S. Marine President Lincoln's Own band in red coats * Civil War field band drummers * More than 1,000-plus Union Army re-enactors * A completely detailed replica (to scale) of President Lincoln's coffin constructed by the Batesville Casket Company and Brooks Brothers * The P.J. Staab family's complete reconstruction of Lincoln's black and gold hearse (topped with eight large black plumes) drawn by six plumed and blanketed black horses * 12 direct descendants of the original white sashed pallbearers walking along side the hearse * Following the hearse were six members of the 8th Veterans Reserve Corps (actual coffin bearers) in light blue Union Army uniforms * A black horse representing Old Bob — President Lincoln's personal mount cloaked with a black, white fringed, mourning blanket * Various carriages carrying representative mourners and speakers participating in the Oak Ridge Cemetery funeral * The Springfield Fire Department (who participated in 1865) following a vintage horse-drawn fire wagon * People in 1865 era attire followed the procession.
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* DESTINATION: Starting at the Old State Capitol building and concluding at the actual 1865 Lincoln receiving vault at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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* FUNERAL PROCESSION ROUTE:
— OSCB on South 6th St. (1 block)
— East Adams St. (1 block)
— South 7th St. (2 blocks)
— East Capitol Ave. (1 block)
— South 8th St. passing Lincoln Home (3 blocks)
— East Cook St. (4 blocks)
— 4th St. moving north (15 blocks)
— North Grand Ave. East (1 block)
— North 3rd St. through the Lincoln Park neighborhood (5 blocks)
— East Black Ave. (2 blocks)
— Through the old Oak Ridge Cemetery 1st Street gate (rebuilt)
* The above information compiled by William Castronuovo
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* This video is PART III of a documentary series Lincoln: From Ford's to Oak Ridge 2015 by William Castronuovo covering the funeral reenactments from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, Illinois during the months of April and May 2015.
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* The Springfield recreation of President Lincoln's funeral in that city was the largest reenactment in the country of the many that were held during April and May 2015.
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* HOW THE MOVIE WAS MADE: This video was recorded from the corner of 8th and Cook Streets in downtown Springfield, Illinois (where the procession turned west) using a GoPro Hero4 Black camera (video mode at 29.97fps) on a three camera rig attached to a MeFoto tripod. A polarizing filter lens was used. The audio was recorded in four-track stereo; one shotgun mic was used for distance audio. REGRET: One of the wind muff/dead cat covers was lost in transit causing the occasional wind noise being captured. Post production was done using GoPro Studio, Final Cut Pro, Audacity (audio correction) and iSkysoft iMedia Converter (deluxe).
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* DISCLAIMER: This video motion picture was independently produced and has no association whatsoever with the Lincoln Funeral Coalition, The Lincoln Train organization, the city of Springfield, Illinois, nor any participants in or associated with the three day Lincoln funeral re-enactment of May 1-3, 2015.
Copyright © 2015 by William Castronuovo.
All rights reserved.
Civil War Battle Flags
Members of the Hecker Camp #443, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War visited the Illinois Military Museum. April 15, 2017.
Abraham Lincoln's Journey Home: Springfield, Illinois
As the nation and the National Park Service commemorated the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's funeral in May 2015, National Park Service employees and representatives re-traced the route his funeral train took as it made its way from Washington DC to Springfield, Illinois. It was a celebration of the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln on the 150th anniversary of his national funeral.
This program was from the end-point in Springfield, IL, on May 3rd, 2015. The program was given at the Old State Capitol State Historic Site in Springfield. Program speakers include Fritz Klein, Duey Kol, and Vanessa Torres.
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Abraham Lincoln's Tomb in Springfield, IL
A short tour around the tomb of Abraham Lincoln in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, IL..
Dedicated in 1874, Lincoln Tomb is the final resting place of Abraham Lincoln, his wife Mary, and three of their four sons, Edward, William, and Thomas. The eldest son, Robert T. Lincoln, is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Also on the site is the public receiving vault, constructed ca. 1860, the scene of funeral services for Abraham Lincoln on May 4, 1865. In 1960 the Tomb was designated a National Historic Landmark and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
The 117-foot Tomb, designed by sculptor Larkin Mead, is constructed of brick sheathed with Quincy granite. The base is 72-foot square with large semi-circular projections on the north and south sides. Double sets of north and south stairs lead to a terrace, above which rises the obelisk. At the corners of the shaft, large pedestals serve as bases for four bronze sculptures, each with a group of figures representing one of the four Civil War services—infantry, artillery, cavalry, and navy. A taller base on the obelisk's south side holds a heroic bronze statue of Lincoln. At the Tomb entrance is a bronze reproduction of Gutzon Borglum's marble head of Lincoln, located in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Interior rooms of the Tomb are finished in a highly polished marble trimmed with bronze. The south entrance opens into a rotunda, where two corridors lead into the burial chamber. The rotunda and corridors contain reduced-scale reproductions of important Lincoln statues as well as plaques with excerpts from Lincoln's Springfield farewell speech, the Gettysburg Address, and his Second Inaugural Address. Lincoln's remains rest in a concrete vault ten feet below the marble floor of the burial chamber. A massive granite cenotaph marking the gravesite is flanked by the Presidential flag and flags of the states in which the Lincoln family resided. Crypts in the chamber's south wall hold the remains of Lincoln's wife and three of their sons.
We stopped off here during our three week tour of Route 66.
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Illinois Adventure #1406 Old State Capitol
The Old State Capitol is a reconstruction of Illinois' fifth statehouse, the first to be located in Springfield. The building served as the seat of state government and a center of Illinois political life from 1839 to 1876. During the dramatic years leading to the Civil War, the building had an important role in the political struggle between Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861) and Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). Lincoln visited the building frequently as both a lawyer and a politician, serving in the building during his last term in the Illinois House of Representatives and delivering the famous 1858 House Divided speech in Representatives Hall, and using the governor's rooms as a headquarters during the 1860 presidential campaign. The building was the scene of the assassinated President's final laying-in-state on May 3-4, 1865.
Chronicles of the War - May 1862.m4v
The Chronicles of the War Series is a series of monthly Civil War Updates from the 'President'. They are scheduled to be issued each month through April, 2015. They are written and produced by Fritz Klein; filmed and edited by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. They are aired on the Illinois State Civil War Sesquicentennial Website and in the Lincoln Home National Park. Lincoln did not issue monthly updates, so although as much quotational material as possible is used, they are largely interpretive. Much of what actually happened is not mentioned. The scope is enormous and even Lincoln did not grasp it all. We try to keep them to 4-5 minutes. Some material, such as cabinet or military difficulties is excluded because Lincoln would not have aired such material to the public. It might have been impolitic, private, unknown to him at the time, (McClellan's revealing letters to his wife, or Gideon Welles' private diary) or discouraging to a war-weary public. The material is run past scholars and though filmed in Springfield, Illinois, set in Washington DC, 1860. We hope you enjoy viewing these personal glimpses as much as we enjoy putting them together.
Abraham Lincoln Home
A look at the only home owned by Abraham Lincoln along with the surrounding neighborhood in Springfield, Illinois as it was when he and his family lived in it for 17 years (1844 - 1861) before he became the 16th President of United States. Located at the corner of Eighth and Jackson Streets, the house contains twelve rooms spread over two floors. The house was donated to the State of Illinois in 1887 by Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert Todd ... and along with the neighborhood is a National Historic Site.
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USA Patriotism! ... 2015 Video Production
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Illinois Adventure #1308 Air Combat Museum
The Air Combat Museum, located at the Abraham Lincoln Capitol Airport in Springfield, houses aircraft ranging from the P-51D Mustang to the Vought F4U-5N Corsair. The website at aeroknow.com provides news of all warbirds in the Air Combat Museum and the Mike George collection, and links to galleries of those aircraft and Frank Urlich's Fairchild F-24W!
Lincoln's Tomb, Springfield Illinois
From the Illinois Channel archives... As the anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln approaches, we take another look at Abraham Lincoln's tomb in Springfield and hear again why it is one of the most visited tourist sites in the nation
Best Attractions and Places to See in Springfield, Illinois IL
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List of Best Things to do in Springfield, Illinois (IL)
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Lincoln Home National Historic Site
Lincoln Tomb & War Memorials
Dana-Thomas House
Illinois State Capitol
Old State Capitol State Historic Site
Lincoln Memorial Garden
Washington Park
Edwards Place Historic Home
Illinois State Museum
Illinois Adventure #1401 Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site
Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site was the 1840s home of Thomas and Sarah Bush Lincoln, father and stepmother of our 16th president. Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer living in Springfield by the time his parents lived here, but he did visit them periodically.
Illinois Adventure #1701 Ulysses S. Grant Home State Historic Site
The Italianate structure known as the U. S. Grant Home was built in 1859-60 as a residence by Alexander J. Jackson of Galena.
The Grant Home site includes several small mid-19th century homes comprising the three-block Grant Home Historic Neighborhood. Grant State Park, a tree-shaded area south of the Grant Home has picnic tables for public use. Also in the park is the Long House, a log building constructed ca. 1851 and moved to the site from Elizabeth, Illinois in 1976, representing a typical settler's home of mid-nineteenth-century Jo Daviess County.
Visitors are provided with an interpreter-conducted tour of the Grant Home. Interpreters are dressed in historic costumes from April through October. The tour emphasizes Grant as the victorious war leader, the 1868 candidate for president, and the eighteenth President of the United States. The adjacent building contains exhibits on Grant's life and history of the Grant Home. The first floor of the Home is accessible to persons with disabilities, as are the exhibit room and restrooms in the building next door. The Home's second floor is not accessible.
Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery - Memorial Day 2014 - Abe Lincoln / 3 Famous Interments
Memorial Day 2014:
From the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, IL.
The cemetery as of right now has only 3 famous interments and they are Theodore Hyatt, Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. John Edward Johnny Carter, Vocalist member of the Rhythm and Blues groups The Flamingos and The Dells. And George Edward Sangmeister, US Congressman. Elected to represent Illinois' 4th and 11th Districts in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1989 to 1995. He was also a member of the Illinois State House of Representatives from 1973 to 1977, the Illinois State Senate from 1977 to 1987, and was an unsuccessful candidate in the primary for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois in 1986. Veteran of US Army Korean War. Note: He was instrumental in the acquisition of 982 acres from the former Joliet Arsenal and its redevelopment as the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery.
NorskMuseumVTour4
a virtual tour of the Norsk Museum in Norway Illinois. Journey back to 1825 with Cleng Peerson and the Sloopers.