The original Lincoln cabin (left) and the reconstruction at the site today.

The Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site is an 86-acre (0.3 km²) history park located eight miles (13 km) south of Charleston, Illinois, U.S.A., near the town of Lerna. Its centerpiece is a replica of the log cabin built and occupied by Thomas Lincoln, father of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. The younger Lincoln never lived here and visited infrequently, but he provided financial help to the household and, after Thomas died in 1851, Abraham owned and maintained the farm for his stepmother, Sarah Bush Lincoln. The farmstead is operated by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. in 1930 was when the first traces of humans where discovered by cochroaches. ... Charleston is the county seat of Coles County, IllinoisGR6. ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... Lerna is a village located in Coles County, Illinois. ... Details of cabin corner joint with squared off logs A log cabin is a small house built from logs. ... Thomas Lincoln (January 6, 1778-January 17, 1851) was an American pioneer farmer and father of Abraham Lincoln. ... For the pop band, see Presidents of the United States of America. ... Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American politician elected from Illinois as the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. ... 1851 (MDCCCLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The Illinois Historic Preservation Agency is a governmental agency of the U.S. state of Illinois. ...

History

Abraham Lincoln's birth mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, died in 1818 while the family lived in southern Indiana. In 1819, Lincoln's father Thomas Lincoln married Sarah Bush Lincoln of Kentucky. In 1830, Thomas and Sarah's newly combined family migrated west from Indiana into central Illinois. For the passenger train, see Nancy Hanks (passenger train). ... Official language(s) English Capital Indianapolis Largest city Indianapolis Area  Ranked 38th  - Total 36,418 sq mi (94,321 km²)  - Width 140 miles (225 km)  - Length 270 miles (435 km)  - % water 1. ... Thomas Lincoln (January 6, 1778-January 17, 1851) was an American pioneer farmer and father of Abraham Lincoln. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Frankfort Largest city Louisville Area  Ranked 37th  - Total 40,444 sq mi (104,749 km²)  - Width 140 miles (225 km)  - Length 379 miles (610 km)  - % water 1. ... Official language(s) English Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Area  Ranked 25th  - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 390 miles (629 km)  - % water 4. ...

After a wretched winter in 1830-1831 at a campsite west of Decatur, young Abraham, now an adult, left the family to start his own homestead and seek his fortune in Sangamon County. Wandering generally southeastward, Thomas and Sarah eventually settled in Coles County. After living unsuccessfully on three separate farmsteads within the county, Thomas bought a small plot near the Embarras River in 1840, part of what was then called Goosenest Prairie, now within Pleasant Grove Township on the southern edge of Coles County. The Decatur Transfer House in the background with a newly completed fountain in the foreground. ... Sangamon County is a county located in the state of Illinois. ... Coles County is a county located in the state of Illinois. ... // The Embarras River (pronounced AM-brah) is a tributary of the Wabash River, 185 mi (298 km) long, in southeastern Illinois in the United States. ... Coles County is a county located in the state of Illinois. ...

At some point soon after that purchase, Thomas and Sarah built what was to be their final home, a saddlebag cabin with two main rooms and additional sleeping and storage space in a loft or attic accessed by a ladder. By 1845, the cabin was home to as many as 18 members of the Lincoln and Johnston families, living together in an extended-family arrangement common in Appalachian Southern culture. Abraham Lincoln, now a rising state legislator and lawyer, provided financial help to his parents but did not visit them as often as he could. As a lawyer, he was in Charleston, site of the Coles County courthouse, quite frequently, but only visited "every year or two." Though he remembered his mother Nancy fondly, Lincoln was not very close to his father; he did not visit even when Thomas Lincoln was terminally ill in 1851. 1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Appalachian Mountains are a system of North American mountains running from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada to Alabama in the United States, although the northernmost mainland portion ends at the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec. ... State legislatures are the lawmaking bodies of the 50 states in the United States of America. ... English barrister 16th century painting of a civil law notary, by Flemish painter Quentin Massys. ... Terminal illness is a medical term popularized in the 20th century for an active and progressive disease which cannot be cured easily by popular medicinal practice. ...

In January 1861, Abraham Lincoln, the President-elect, traveled by newly laid railroad tracks from Springfield to Farmington, a few miles north of the cabin, to visit his widowed stepmother (Farmington is now the unincorporated hamlet of Campbell and not to be confused with Farmington, Illinois). Their meeting occurred at the middle-class frame house of prominent Farmington citizen Reuben Moore. Sarah was fond of her stepson and had always believed he would be successful. This was to be their last visit; Lincoln never returned to Illinois alive. A President-elect is a candidate who has officially been elected President, but who has not yet acceded to his Office, as it is still occupied by the out-going President. ... This is the top-level page of WikiProject trains Rail tracks Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ... Farmington is a city located in Fulton County, Illinois. ... A wooden-frame detached house under construction Light-frame construction is a building technique based around structural members, usually called studs, which provide a stable frame to which interior and exterior wall coverings are attached, and covered by a roof comprising horizontal joists or sloping rafters covered by various sheathing...

Sarah Bush Lincoln lived in the Goosenest Prairie cabin until her death in 1868. Thomas and Sarah Lincoln are buried in nearby Shiloh Cemetery. [1]

The site today

In 1893, the original Thomas Lincoln log cabin was disassembled and shipped northward to serve as an exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. The original cabin was lost after the Exposition, and may have been used as firewood. However, the cabin had been photographed many times, and a replica was built from the photographs and from contemporary descriptions. One-third scale replica of Daniel Chester Frenchs Republic, which stood in the great basin at the exposition, Chicago, 2004 The Worlds Columbian Exposition (also called The Chicago Worlds Fair), a Worlds Fair, was held in the U.S. city of Chicago in 1893, to celebrate... Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ...

The current Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site includes three houses on two sites:

• A reconstruction of the Thomas Lincoln log cabin, rebuilt starting in 1929, surrounded by a subsistence farmstead 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 1853 and moved to the main site in 1985, reflects successful cash crop farming practices of the 1850s, 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. The following is a list of subsistence techniques: Hunting and Gathering, also known as Foraging freeganism involves gathering of discarded food in the context of an urban environment gleaning involves the gathering of food that traditional farmers have left behind in their fields Cultivation Horticulture - plant cultivation, based on the... In agriculture, a cash crop is a crop which is grown for money. ... An outbuilding is any structure secondary to a house, such as a shed, or an outhouse. ... Only a few of the many varieties of potato are commercially grown; others are heirlooms. ... In Britain, thanks have been given for successful harvests since pagan times. ...

External links

• Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site