The Vandalia Statehouse is located at 315 West Gallatin Street. In Coles County, the Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site will celebrate Lincoln’s birthday with refreshments and crafts.

LERNA — Celebrate the arrival of autumn at Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site’s Harvest Frolic on Saturday-Sunday. Sept. 28-29. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take ...

as well as the issues facing the historic society in reconstruction and restoration of the building. Crawford & Stearns outlined five issues that need to be addressed: reconstruction of the log ...

In the rugged wilderness, the log cabin was the best way to utilize on-site building materials, such as logs, river stone, rubblestone, and mud or clay for filling gaps. The standard Lincoln Log ...

and the Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site, located in Lerna. Noon to 4 p.m. The Postville Courthouse, 914 S. Fifth St., Lincoln also will offer tours Friday and Saturday afternoon.

LERNA — Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site will host a new volunteer training session at 10 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 28. Anyone interested in volunteering at Lincoln Log Cabin is invited to attend.

Demolition of a condemned home in Lincoln ... log cabin was inside the home they were tearing down. Now archaeologists want to know how old the home is, and if it could be linked to one of the ...

Lincoln bought 40 acres in 1841 from his cash-strapped father. Six acres became part of the current Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site. The remaining 34 acres were eventually sold.

A plot of Illinois farmland that President Abraham Lincoln once owned has sold at auction for $300,000. A retired farmer in the central Illinois city of Charleston sold his family’s 590-acre ...

Six acres became part of what is now the Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site, while the rest stayed in private ownership until Best purchased 30 acres in an auction in 1989. Best said he wanted ...

Farm ground once owned by Abraham Lincoln in southern Coles County near Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site is set to be sold at auction on Tuesday. (Dave Fopay/Mattoon Journal Gazette via AP ...

Joseph Woodard first portrayed a young, beardless Lincoln at the Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site in Illinois. “Lincoln’s presidential period was his time of greatness,” Woodard wrote t ...