Everything we know of the emigrant Abraham Lincoln goes to show that it was under the auspices of this most famous of our pioneers that he set out from Rockingham County to make a home for himself and his young
1858, the day after the last Lincoln-Douglas Debate in Alton. This re-enactment was held at the original site (west lawn of the Logan County Courthouse) on October 16, 2008 (the sesquicentennial anniversary of the rally)
Almost 100 years after Thomas Lincoln moved from Sinking Spring Farm, a log cabin originally accepted as the birthplace cabin of Abraham Lincoln was placed in the Memorial Building. While the cabin is old and typical to the area, it is not the original Lincoln cabin. The National Park Service...