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Mary Surratt wanted Abe Lincoln dead. She got what she wanted, but she also ended up on the gallows, and the hat that she wore that day ended up in this museum.
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Drummer Boy Civil War Museum
- Address:
- 109 E. Church St., Andersonville, GA
- Directions:
- Drummer Boy Civil War Museum, which is in downtown Andersonville, which is about a block long. On the south side of Church St., just before the Captain Wirz monument in the middle of the street. Enter town under the Welcome to Andersonville arch from Hwy 49.
- Hours:
- Daily 11 am - 5 pm. (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.
- Phone:
- 229-924-2558
- Ewa Beach, Oahu, Hawaii - Ax-Wielding Abe Lincoln in Hawaii
A bronze, ax-wielding Abe has stood outside of Ewa Elementary School since 1944. The Hawaiians liked President Lincoln, but this statue has more to do with World War II than the Civil War.
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- Address:
- 91-1280 Renton Rd, Ewa Beach, Oahu, HI
- Directions:
- At the entrance plaza to Ewa Elementary School. H1 exits 5 or 5A onto Kunia Rd. Drive south around three miles and turn right onto Renton Rd. School will be 1/4 mile on the right.
- Davenport, Iowa - Abe Lincoln Saves a Bridge
The park and general area surrounding the statue seems really run down, but there is a brewery now across the street. Free parking is plentiful in the area.
[Suzerama, 09/25/2019]Abe Lincoln Saves a Bridge:- Address:
- E. 2nd St., Davenport, IA
- Directions:
- On the riverfront, in a small park at the intersection of Iowa and E. 2nd Sts. The statue stands next to the ramp leading to the Arsenal Bridge across the Mississippi River.
- Admission:
- Free
Officially titled, "A Little Less Opinion, A Little More Fact," this is another slice-of-life sculpture ennobling America's most artistically malleable President. Unveiled in January 2016, created by artist Jeff Adams, the larger-than-life bronze depicts a beardless 1856 Abe Lincoln meeting a boy on a railroad bridge -- a predecessor of the bridge that's behind the statue.
The original bridge was the first one across the Mississippi River, and it freaked out steamboat companies because they realized that bridges would put them out of business. They claimed that the bridge was a navigation hazard, and as if to prove their point, a steamboat rammed into it and burned it down. The owners of the steamboat filed a lawsuit, hoping to prevent any further bridges from being built.
Lincoln, working for the railroad, visited the bridge, accidentally met the son of the engineer who built it, and somehow this led to a hung jury that then led to the freedom to build bridges across the Mississippi -- or at least that's what this statue suggests. Abe Lincoln! Freedom!
[RoadsideAmerica.com Team, 01/17/2016]- Waterloo, Iowa - International Wrestling Institute & Museum
Did you know Abe Lincoln was a wrestler and that wrestling used to be done in the nude? Neither did I until I visited the International Wrestling Institute & Museum. Minnesota may have a governor that is an ex-wrestler, but Iowa has a museum dedicated to the true art of wrestling!
[Tiffany Menke, 05/13/2001]National Wrestling Hall of Fame:- Address:
- 303 Jefferson St., Waterloo, IA
- Directions:
- Jefferson St. and W 2nd St.
- Hours:
- M-F 9-5, Sa by appt. (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.
- Phone:
- 319-233-0745
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Exactly what are you suggesting about our 16th President? The museum's literature notes "wrestling is one of just three sports mentioned in the Bible"...