Springfield, Illinois, USA
1906

Springfield, a city, capital of the state of Illinois, and seat of justice of Sangamon co., 185 miles SW. of Chicago, on the Wabash, the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, the Chicago and Alton and other railroads. It is regularly laid out, with wide, straight streets, and contains a number of notable public buildings, of which the most prominent are the massive capitol, with a dome rising to 364 feet, the state arsenal, and the old capitol (county court-house). The city has a number of collegiate institutions (St. Agatha's School, Concordia College), a state museum of natural history, railroad machine-shops, and extensive industries, represented by engine and boiler-works, foundries and machine-shops, and manufactures of watches, woollens, vehicles, farming implements, soap, leather, clothing, and malted liquors. The city is one of the most important horse-breeding centres of the United States. In the vicinity are productive coal-mines.

Springfield is memorable as having been the residence of Abraham Lincoln, whose house is under the care of the state and whose remains rest in the beautiful Oak Ridge Cemetery within the crypt of the national monument erected to his memory. Pop. in 1850, 4533; in 1860, 9320; in 1870, 17,364; in 1880, 19,743; in 1890, 24,963; in 1900, 34,159.

Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906

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