The Girard/Lake City community has always had an important place in the fabric of America.
But did you know president Abraham Lincoln is part of our town's history? The morning of February 16, 1861, a train carrying Lincoln left Cleveland and stopped at Girard Station in modern day Lake City. It was part of a longer inaugural train journey from his hometown in Springfield, Illinois, to Washington, DC. Lincoln stopped in various towns and cities to greet citizens and give them an opportunity to see the new president.
Read about Lincoln's visit in Lake City in the below Erie Times article, as well as a historic marker going in Lake City this summer to mark the occasion: