| Research and Educational Projects at the Maryland State Archives |
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| Ed et al. David Haight, a retired teacher who lives in my neighborhood and who does research for me, found the article
in the New York Hearld for Feb. 5, 1865 about Abraham Lincoln's
walk through Annapolis in the afternoon of February 2d, 1865.
As the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth will occur on Feb. 12th, 2009
and as the Feb. 2d journey to the boat and the return were
apparently the only occasions Lincoln was here should we be
organizing a local committee to commemorate this event as part of
the bicentennial observance of Lincoln's 200th birthday in 2009?
The committee might consider placing a suitable historical marker
near the site of the railway station, (in the vicinity of the present
Loews Hotel on West Street) and organizing a "walk in Lincoln's
footsteps" with a talk on the event at St. John's or the Academy.
Any Comments or other ideas? I expect to introduce a resolution
on this at the City Council meeting of Feb. 11th, 2008. Dick Israel
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