One hundred fifty years ago the American Civil War had just ended and our nation was mourning the death of Abraham Lincoln. Events are planned this week in Columbia County to mark the anniversary of ...

GREENFIELD — Being a bit of a history buff, Charlie Vetters couldn’t pass up the opportunity to commemorate the anniversary of the day President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train passed through ...

BLOOMINGTON — When the Lincoln funeral train passed through Bloomington at 5 a.m. May 3, 1865, "the depot was handsomely dressed in mourning, and about 5,000 persons were assembled to ...

One of two flags that flew from the locomotive of the Lincoln funeral train on the route between Albany and Utica, New York On April 19, 1865, an estimated 25 million Americans attended memorial ...

The funeral train carrying the remains of assassinated President Abraham Lincoln passes through the Upper Mohawk Valley region on its 1,700-mile journey from Washington to Springfield, Illinois. On a ...

SPRINGFIELD — It took the Lincoln funeral train 12 days to journey from Washington, D.C., to Springfield in 1865, passing through seven states and 180 cities, including Bloomington. But it's taken six ...

The story of President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train will be the topic for the Vernon County Historical Society’s first free public program of 2025. Civil War historian and re-enactor Frederick ...

While I agree that local Northwest Indiana businesses will benefit from housing the Lincoln funeral train here, I firmly believe it should be a national treasure vs. a local sightseeing stop.