That was an interesting site. It was a little frustrating because I started reading just wanting to know what happened to the original Postville courthouse, but the site went into the entire story, Henry Ford and then the building of the replica.
Is Postville still a town, or did it become Lincoln, Ill.?
Just catching up. Fresno rally speech was one of the best ones, I think. I didn’t see Jim Rob, but Trump certainly focused on Fresno issues.
Maybe going over the top on the delegates was the reason, but that was a bang-up, over-the-top speech and rally. Those Fresno folks were glorious.
Postville, was bypassed by the railroad that was laid new, about a mile away. As was the case often in those days, having the railroad miss your town by so little, meant the town would likely wither up and die, which it did. Lincoln was asked to christen the new town, that had building lots laid out along the new track. This was in 1853; 7 years before Lincoln won the Presidency.
He must have been a bit of celebrity already, and his local friends wanted to curry favor with him, as they came up with the idea of naming the new town after him.
To Lincoln’s credit- he said: I don’t know why you would name something after Lincoln, because nothing ever amounted to much named Lincoln. He then took a pocket knife and cut a watermelon open, taking it from a wagon load nearby, using a cup to scoop out the juices, pouring it out in a christening ceremony, naming the town Lincoln.
How bout’ them apples?
That site is deep. You can spend days there, reading all the work of the author.