On March 27, 1925, a small plane made an emergency landing on the Farlow Field near Camp Point. A 21-year-old pilot, who only a week earlier had been commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Service Reserve Corps, needed a part for his Curtiss-Jenny, a single- engine biplane. He found an equipment dealer in the area: Abbott Electric Company located at 111 North 10th Street in Quincy. Ted Cantrell, a nearby resident, gave the pilot and his co- pilot, Randolph Enslow, an automobile ride from Camp Point to Quincy. The pilot’s name was Charles Lindbergh.

Lt. Lindbergh spent the night in Camp Point. By morning a crowd had gathered to gawk at his airplane. For most it was their first view of this invention, which revolutionized transportation. As he and other pilots did to earn money and sp

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