Historical highway markers

Minister Who Married Lincoln

Historical highway marker R-80 · Halifax County

Here lived Rev. Charles A. Dresser, rector of Antrim Parish and builder of St. Mark's Church, 1828. Dresser left this parish in 1835 for Peoria, Illinois, whence he moved to Springfield. There he married Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd, November 4, 1842.

Conservation & Development Commission, 1929