Taylorville Twenty-five miles southeast of Springfield and twenty-three miles southwest of Decatur. My brother was born in Decatur, so I'm sure my parents were familiar with Taylorville. It's a small town of about 12,000, but it has its own interesting history tidbits. We were working in Taylorville near the town square, but stayed in Springfield.Abraham Lincoln
There's a fun statue in front of the county courthouse of Abe Lincoln and a pig. The placques explaining the statue say, "..pigs rummaging underneath the floor boards of the courthouse sometimes disrupted the Judge's courtroom. Once, it was so noisy that attorney Lincoln reportedly rose to his feet to demand a 'writ of quietus' to abate the hog nuisance." Lincoln was a circuit lawyer and Taylorville was the last court on his circuit.
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