After years of neglect, an Illinois village with ties to Abraham Lincoln is getting a refresh
The village where Abraham Lincoln came of age is deteriorating. Lincoln lived in New Salem, Illinois, as a young man from ...
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Illinois State Museum receives donation from Lincoln’s extended Springfield family
The donated items represent the families of Virgil and Catharine Hickox and Ninian and Elizabeth Todd Edwards.
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New Salem, an Illinois village with ties to Abraham Lincoln, getting a refresh after years of neglect
Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem. The tiny central Illinois village ...