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By Jim Leach Photo via blackswanbooks.com If you think railroad relocation has taken a long time, think about this – it was first proposed nearly 100 years ago. Springfield in the 1920s was not a showplace. The air was filled with coal smoke, the rail crossings were a nuisance and hazard for drivers and pedestrians, the drinking water would not pass modern standards for sanitation. City officials commissioned a Chicago city planner, Myron West, to develop a plan for the future. West delivered his vision to the city in May of 1923, and in 1924 it was adopted as the first official city plan. It was a document well ahead of its time. It took more than a decade to realize the West Plan’s vision of a manmade lake for drinking water, what became Lake Springfield. It envisioned turning Capitol Avenue into a landscaped parkway, a project that didn’t get started until the 21 ....
SPRINGFIELD Their new book is called the “History of the Springfield Cemetery,” but editors Wayne E. Phaneuf and Joseph Carvalho III say it is about much more than that. “It’s more than just about the cemetery, because it’s really about the history of the city,” says Phaneuf. “It’s the history of the country.” Phaneuf, retired executive editor of The Republican, and Carvalho, retired . ....
By Jim Leach Photo courtesy Sangamon Valley Collection It was the early days of aviation, and Springfield’s postmaster saw the potential in mail delivery by air. Postmaster William Conkling pushed for a Springfield stop in the inaugural run of a Chicago to St. Louis airmail route. Conkling produced a special one-day-only cancellation stamp and a special airmail envelope for local residents to send distant letters. Some 39,000 were printed and sold at 10 cents apiece. On April 15, 1926, Springfield was a stop on the first day of the new airmail route. Among the pilots who flew into Springfield that day for the introduction of airmail was Charles Lindbergh, who one year earlier had graduated at the top of his class from the Army Flying School. Within months, Lindbergh would give up airmail in order to get ready for his history-making trans-Atlantic flight in May of 1927. Months later, Lindbergh would return for the dedication of the city’s airport as Lind ....