Lovington’s ‘Blackhorse Tavern’ 

•September 17, 2025•

by Janet Roney

 When Tom Lincoln and his family passed through Moultrie County in the spring of 1830 on their way to their new home in Macon County, they followed the Charleston Road north to the Springfield Road, where they turned west towards Decatur. The few families living in the northern part of the county near the Springfield Road were scattered through the timbered area along the West Okaw River and its small tributaries. The rest of the northern part of the county was full of prairie grass and swamps, which the pioneers thought were too unhealthy to live in.  

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