De Soto Hotel, Galena, IL - Hosted Lincoln, Grant & Twain

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Built in 1855, De Soto Hotel, in Galena, III., was called "the largest and finest hotel in the West". Today's visitors enjoy hospitality at the same hotel that hosted Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Mark Twain, and served as presidential campaign headquarters for U.S. Grant. 141247 Pub. by Color-View Inc., Rockford, Ill. HERE