Abraham Lincoln never campaigned in California but in the election of 1860 he received California’s four electoral votes and in 1864 he received the five electoral votes of the state. However… ...

The Lincoln Townsite is an abandoned mining community east of Breckenridge in White River National Forest. The 1860s community was never platted or incorporated, but it existed through four minor ...

St. Louis, long a Southern-inclined river town in a slave state, had tilted more northerly with the arrival of German immigrants and Yankee industry.

Bell had 4,932, Breckenridge only 609. Lincoln was strongest in the city and the village of Carondelet. Douglas did well in the farming townships of Creve Coeur, Manchester and Gravois.