Charles A Lindbergh Memorial

On the night of September 16, 1926, 24 year old pilot C A Lindbergh was on a regular airmail flight from St Louis to Chicago. Unable to land at Chicago because of heavy fog, he turned back but soon ran out of fuel, forcing him to parachute to safety into a cornfield 1400 feet east of this marker. His plane crashed 2300 feet to the south of the site. When local farmer Francis Johnson discovered Lindbergh emerging from the field carrying his parachute, he gave the pilot a ride to the nearby Jason DeBolt home where Lindbergh spent the rest of the night.