Hawthorne School, Mattoon	High School in Mattoon
"Modern" School building c. 1909	Post Office in Charleston
West Monroe Street in Charleston	Public Library in Charleston
Hotel U.S.Grant in Mattoon	Charleston Courthouse
Seventh Street in Charleston	17th Street in Mattoon, looking south
Clover Leaf and Big 4 Railroad Depot	New Big Four Train Station in Mattoon c. 1922
Broadway Street in Mattoon	South Side Square - Oakland, IL Contributed by Src #132
The Waterworks	Lake Paradise Dam - 1908
The Christian Church in Coles	I.O.O.F. Old Folks Home in Mattoon - c. 1907
Oil Well in the Charleston Oil Field	Paradise Lake
This is the cabin that Abe Lincoln helped his father to build in 1831 in Coles County. The cabin was later taken to Chicago during the World's Fair. "Saturday, the old log cabin in Pleasant Grove Township, which Thomas Lincoln, the father of the martyred president, spent the latter years of his life, was sold to a Chicago firm for $1000. The sale was negotiated to John Hall, the present owner of the land, by J. W. Craig of Mattoon. The cabin was built by Thomas Lincoln himself, and is worth about one or 2 dollars for firewood, as it is about 50 years old and many of the logs are somewhat rotten. The building will be taken down, moved to Chicago and put up again as nearly in its present condition as possible. It will be used as one of the curiosities to be exhibited at the world's fair. Charleston Herald, June 3rd, 1891"

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