Founded in 1823, Lewistown is the oldest city in Fulton County and it is County seat. Fulton County once extended all the way north to include Chicago. For Chicagoan’s between 1823 and 1825, conducting legal business meant a lengthy journey south to Lewistown’s log courthouse. Today’s courthouse is a prominent landmark on Main Street, facing the elegant 1st Presbyterian Church (circa. 1854). East of Main Street and running parallel is Broadway, home to St. James Episcopal Church, considered to be one of the finest examples of sure gothic architecture in America. Author Edgar Lee Masters set his Spoon River Anthology in Oak Hill Cemetery, which is on Main Street, north of the center of town. Two pillars, between which Abraham Lincoln once gave a speech, were relocated from an older version of the courthouse to become a prominent landmark in Oak Hill Cemetery. Just north of the cemetery on the opposite side of Main Street is a modest brick home where Lincoln visited his friend Major Newton Walker on several occasion. For the traveler, Lewistown offers a visitors center, restaurants, wineries, orchard, hotel, gasoline, convenience store, grocery store, laundromat, ATM banking, car wash and auto repair services.