Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist mill along the Sangamon River aboard a flatboat that was sinking. Lincoln had ...

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to ...

Nearly a century after the Civil Conservation Corps reconstructed the once-thriving village of New Salem where Abraham ...

He was outspoken in his hatred of Abraham Lincoln ... In April 1865, upon hearing of Lee's surrender, Booth abandoned his plot to kidnap Lincoln. His new goal was assassination.

Abraham Lincoln lived in New Salem from 1831 to 1837 before moving to Springfield. New Salem was largely abandoned by 1840, but reconstructed in the 1930s. Nearly 360,000 people visited New Salem ...

While New Salem was essentially abandoned in the years after Lincoln ... “This is where President Abraham Lincoln, one of the most famous people to ever live, started his career in politics, ...

PETERSBURG, Ill. (AP) — 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.