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Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).
In 1830, fearing a milk sickness outbreak along the Ohio River, the Lincoln family moved west, where they settled on public land in Macon County, Illinois, another free, non-slave state.
Canoeing down the Sangamon River, Lincoln ended up in the village of New Salem in Sangamon County.
* 1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
* 1878 – John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
In 1851 John went to an academy at Pittsfield in Pike County, where he met an older student, John G. Nicolay, with whom he would later work as private secretary to Abraham Lincoln.
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* County of Lincoln, archaic name for county of Lincolnshire, England
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Lincoln and California
Turnout was 82. 2 percent, with Lincoln winning the free Northern states, as well as California and Oregon.
* 1864 – U. S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for " public use, resort and recreation ".
* Clinton, California or Lincoln
The next effort by any government to set aside such protected lands was, again, in the United States, when President Abraham Lincoln signed an Act of Congress on June 30, 1864, ceding the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias ( later becoming the Yosemite National Park ) to the state of California:
* Lincoln Park ( Los Angeles ), California
* Lincoln Park, San Francisco, California
By 1922, after travels in California, Oliver was the jazz king in Chicago, performing as King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band at the Royal Gardens ( later renamed the Lincoln Gardens ).
President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill on June 30, 1864 granting Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias to the State of California " for public use, resort and recreation ," the two tracts " shall be inalienable for all time ".
The site of the Misión Vieja ( or " Old Mission ") is located near the intersection of San Gabriel Boulevard and Lincoln Avenue in Montebello, California ( known to the natives as Shevaanga ).
On March 18, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln restored the California missions to the Catholic Church.
After crossing the Hudson River to Weehawken, New Jersey, the Lincoln Highway continued across the country to its western terminus in Lincoln Park in San Francisco, California.
In 2009 the Lincoln Magna Carta was loaned to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.
Conceived and promoted by Indiana entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, the Lincoln Highway spanned coast-to-coast from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco, originally through 13 states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and California.
In the West, particularly in Wyoming, Utah and California, sections of Interstate 80 are paved directly over alignments of the Lincoln Highway.
Most of U. S. Route 30 from Philadelphia to western Wyoming, portions of Interstate 80 in the western United States, most of U. S. Route 50 in Nevada and California, and most of old decommissioned U. S. Route 40 in California are alignments of the Lincoln Highway.
* From 9 miles west of Fallon to Sacramento, California, there are two Lincoln Highway routes over the Sierra Nevada:
** El Camino del Mar westward into Lincoln Park, arriving at the Lincoln Highway Western Terminus Plaza and Fountain in front of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor.
When U. S. 50 was extended to California it followed the Lincoln Highway's alternate route south of Lake Tahoe.
* Some city streets on which the Lincoln Highway was routed still carry the street name " Lincoln Way " or " Lincolnway ", including: Mishawaka, Indiana ; Valparaiso, Indiana ; Aurora, Illinois ; DeKalb, Illinois ; Ames, Iowa ; Cheyenne, Wyoming ; Auburn, California ; and Galt, California.
Madera and County
* Ash, California in Madera County, California
* Funseeker's Guide to Eastern Madera County
Vya, established in 1999, is an American vermouth produced in Madera County, California.
* Millerton, Madera County, California
* John Muir Wilderness ( entirely in Sierra National Forest and Inyo National Forest / partly in Fresno County, CA ; Mono County, CA ; Madera County, CA )
Madera County is a county of the U. S. state of California, located in the Central Valley and the Sierra Nevada north of Fresno County.
Logging in the Sierra, Madera County, about 1901
Madera County was formed in 1893, from the southern part of Mariposa County during a special election held on May 16, 1893.
Citizens residing in the area that was to become Madera County voted 1, 179 to 358 for establishment of the new county.
The eastern side of Madera County, which includes Devil's Postpile National Monument and part of Minaret Summit, is unconnected to the rest of Madera County by road.
* Madera County Connection provides service between the cities of Madera and Chowchilla.
Routes also run to eastern Madera County.
The 2010 United States Census reported that Madera County had a population of 150, 865.
The racial makeup of Madera County was 94, 456 ( 62. 6 %) White, 5, 629 ( 3. 7 %) African American, 4, 136 ( 2. 7 %) Native American, 2, 802 ( 1. 9 %) Asian, 162 ( 0. 1 %) Pacific Islander, 37, 380 ( 24. 8 %) from other races, and 6, 300 ( 4. 2 %) from two or more races.
* Madera County, California-south, east
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