Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site
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The Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site is an 86-acre (0.3 km2) history park located eight miles (13 km) south of
History
Abraham Lincoln's mother,
After a wretched winter in 1830–1831 at a campsite west of
At some point soon after that purchase, Thomas and Sarah built what was to be their final home, a saddlebag style
At the end of January 1861, Abraham Lincoln, the
Sarah Bush Lincoln lived in the Goosenest Prairie cabin until her death in 1869. Sarah Lincoln was buried with Thomas in Shiloh Cemetery.[2]
The site today
In 1893, the original Thomas Lincoln log cabin was disassembled and shipped northward to serve as an exhibit at the
In 1907, Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage purchased the cabin for $25,000 ($740,000 in 2021) and intended to place it in a glass case to be preserved forever.[3]
The current Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site includes three houses on two sites:
- A reconstruction of the Thomas Lincoln log cabin, completed in 1934 as a project of the subsistencefarmstead similar to the senior Lincoln's actual farm, is the central feature of the main site. The farm includes heirloom crops and cattle breeds similar or identical to those used at the time.
- The Stephen Sargent home, built on a site 10 miles to the east starting in 1843 and moved to Lincoln Log Cabin in 1987, reflects successful cash crop farming practices of the 1840s, and is meant to contrast with the Lincoln farm.
- The Reuben Moore Home, occupied by a branch of the family starting in 1856, was the place of Abraham and Sarah Bush Lincoln's final meeting. It is located about 1 mile (2 km) north of the main Goosenest Prairie site in what is now the former village of Farmington.
The Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site is interpreted to the mid-1840s, the time of its occupation by many members of the extended Lincoln family. The main site also includes the cornfields, gardens, small orchards, livestock, and outbuildings that would be found on a farm of the period. The crops and livestock are all of historic heirloom varieties. A great many additional activities occur during the annual Fall Harvest Frolic.
In response to budget cuts, the state of Illinois temporarily closed the Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site from December 2008 until April 2009.[4] On January 22, 2014, part of the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[5] The former location of the CCC's "Camp Shiloh", it qualified as a historical archaeological site, not because of the current buildings or because of any connection to Lincoln. As a result, all the buildings on the site are non-contributing.[6]
See also
- Lincoln logs, children's toy
References
- ISBN 0871950626.
- ^ a b "Illinois State Historical Markers: Shiloh Cemetery." Historyillinois.org Archived 2007-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Lincoln's Cabin in Glass Case". No. October 18, 1907. Essex County Herald. October 18, 1907. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
- ^ "Illinois to close historic sites, parks due to budget shortfall". USA Today/Associated Press. November 28, 2008.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Archived from the original on February 2, 2014.
- ^ Thompson, Stephen A. National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Shiloh Encampment Site. National Park Service, 2013-09-11, 11.
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