Carthage, IL – The Courthouse will get the first Hancock County wayside parker as part of the Illinois "Looking for Lincoln" program.
Economic Developer Brenda Pyatt says the market will tell about the only trial in which Lincoln's client was both convicted and hung.
In addition, she says it will tell about how the customs of the time made the hanging a social event, with children dismissed from school for the occasion.
Lincoln's client was an Illinois riverboatman who stabbed a companion while their boat was pulled up across the river from Beardstown.
The trial was moved to Hancock County to seek a more neutral venue.
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Pyatt says applications have been filed for several such wayside markers in the county.
She says whether the county receives grants to set up the other markers will depend on funding at the state level.
The marker will be installed on a corner of the Courthouse lawn.