Lincoln, England home to the University of Lincoln and Bishop Grosseteste University, and to Lincoln City Football Club. The earliest origins of Lincoln can be traced to the remains of an Iron Age settlement of round wooden dwellings (which were discovered by archaeologists in 1972) that have been dated to the 1st century BC. This settlement was built by a deep pool (the modern Brayford Pool) in the River Witham at the foot of a large hill (on which the Normans later built Lincoln Cathedral and Lincoln Castle). The origins of the name Lincoln may come from this period, when the settlement
Lincoln Place (Granite City) Lincoln Place (Granite City) Lincoln Place is a neighborhood in Granite City, Illinois. It is located west of downtown Granite City, near the Mississippi River. Lincoln Place was settled largely by immigrants from Eastern Europe who moved to the area in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to work in Granite City's steel industry. Lincoln Place was first populated around 1906, eventually becoming home to more than 10,000 immigrants of mostly central and eastern European ancestry such as Romanian, Hungarian, and Macedonian immigrants as well as a considerable Armenian and[Mexican people|Mexican]] population. By 1915, the neighborhood was allegedly home