Sunday, November 11, 2007

Springfield Illinois state capitol building.
Beautiful monument where Lincoln is buried.
Original train station in the town of my fathers birthplace and where my grandparents Anton and Elizabeth Madarasz (even though on the wedding license it's spelled 'Lizzie') were married. Both grandparents probably arrived (separately) here at the turn of the last century where Anton later worked for the Madison coal company and then the Illinois Central Railroad.

Little remains of the mine as is it now closed, and the town has shrunk from its peak in the late twenties of around 3500 souls to its present day 1000. Talked with several older town folks who filled in some detail about the town had not known.
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