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Lincoln Speech


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Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz

Marker Image
Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz

On this spot in the Upper Room
of the Old Court House
in August 1854,
Abraham Lincoln
made his first speech on
The Kansas Nebraska Question.


Erected by the Literature & Civics Department of the Winchester Woman's Club, 1920.

S. Main St. & E. Market St., town square, Winchester,

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