(MCT) — LINCOLN — A Logan County group is hoping to raise $48,000 to place a bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln on the Logan County Courthouse lawn in Lincoln to commemorate an 1858 speech that was re-enacted five years ago.

Bill Donath, president of the Logan County Genealogical and Historical Society, said the Abraham Lincoln Statue Committee was formed following the dedication of a Logan County Civil War statue in 2011. At that time, a volunteer committee of local historians raised $50,000 to create a new statue after an original was toppled in a December 2008 storm.