clrothwell@mindspring.com wrote: > > Thanks Alberta. I knew I had been in the Postville courthouse. Why do you suppose they let Ford carry the original off to Michigan...and why would he want to? Cheryl: I think, (I don't have the data to back this up right at hand) the City Fathers of Lincoln, IL at that time, wanted the money and didn't think about the Historical Value. Since Lincoln now has a Chamber of Commerce and is interested in Tourism, they make much of the courthouse and other Abraham Lincoln sites in Logan County. Henry Ford had an enormous project of building the Greenfield Village next to his automobile museum. The village consists of many original historical buildings that he purchased and had moved to Greenfield Village. It is very impressive and contains much that is of historical value from all around the country. I remember especially the Logan Co. Courthouse, Edison's Laboratory, the Wright Brothers Bicycle Shop where they made their airplanes, Burbank's home. I have many slides taken in the Museum and the Village taken by my husband Bob Lisk when we visited there about 1970. Alberta