Adrienne, Lisa, and Jack's Big Lincoln Adventure! 3 days in Springfield Illinois. 1 day in New Salem, Illinois then on to Indiana. 1 day in Kentucky, then home.
Date(s): May 19 - 25, 2009. Album by LM Logan. 1 - 148 of 148 Total. 2373 Visits.
1 Our hotel for 3 days in Springfield. We arrived late Wednesday night May 20, tired & hungry.
2 We ate a late dinner in our room of the local Springfield IL delicacy, Horseshoe sandwich.
3 On this trip, we went in reverse order, from grave to adulthood to boyhood to birth. Our first tour was of Lincoln's Tomb in Springfield.
23 Adrienne in front of the old Illinois State Capitol (Lincoln was a State Representative here).
24 In the old Capitol, Lincoln's stovepipe hat sits at his place & the clock is stopped at 7:22 (he died at that time in DC after assassination).
25 It was a beautiful day. Both Capitol Domes are visible (the old and the new in the background).
26 Dome inside the old Capitol Building in Springfield.
27 Under the dome at the old Capitol are these stairs.
28 The Capitol legislative chamber where state Rep. Lincoln and state Rep. Douglas served.
29 Statue of Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd and little Tad, in front of his old law office building.
30 How Lincoln's law office would've looked.
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32 Lincoln's law partners over the years.
33 Copies of real ads Lincoln ran for his services as an attorney.
34 Inside what Lincoln's law office would've looked like. Note the upturned stovepipe hat.
35 Lincoln was actually known to keep legal documents in the inside band of his stovepipe hat.
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39 HIPPIES USE SIDE DOOR.
40 Candle in a store window in Springfield. LOL!
41 Lincoln's house & his surrounding neighborhood has been preserved as it was when he lived there.
42 Lincoln's neighborhood street.
43 On the steps of President Lincoln's house. He lived here for 17 years before he departed to DC to be President.
44 We walked around in the neighborhood in the late evening but came back the next day to tour the house.
45 A picture of how Lincoln's house was decorated for mourning by his neighbors after his assassination in DC. His body came home by train to Springfield for burial.
46 A neighbor's house.
47 This is a replica of a kind of float that would've been pulled in a Lincoln campaign parade.
48 Adrienne strolling through Lincoln's neighborhood.
49 On Lincoln's neighborhood street. The plaque said it was Sen. Durbin's Springfield office.
50 Lincoln's neighborhood street as it is preserved today.
51 Another view of Lincoln's neighborhood.
52 Loved all the beautiful peonies in Illinois!
53 We took a guided tour inside Lincoln's house. It is preserved by the National Park Service.
54 Inside Lincoln's house.
55 Lincoln's bedroom.
56 Lincoln's kitchen.
57 Taken looking toward the back of Lincoln's house.
58 One of the simplest but very best sites we visited was the Lincoln Depot. I really felt like I went back in time to Lincoln here.
59 As we were in this depot, a train rumbled by.
60 A depiction inside the depot of that day when Lincoln departed Springfield to be President.
61 It turned out to be a scary trip to DC for Lincoln.
81 At 21 years old, Lincoln came to New Salem (about 20 miles from Springfield where he would live later). He lived in this pioneer village for 7 years. Lincoln's New Salem 1830-1837
82 Statue at the New Salem, IL site.
83 Lincoln worked as a surveyor (and also a general storekeeper) while in New Salem. McClarey Statue
84 New Salem as Lincoln would've experienced in his time is now a National Park Service site.
85 There were reinactors at New Salem. This man was the cooper (barrel makers).
86 Front of the cooper's shop at New Salem.
87 At New Salem, a basket weaver.
88 These ladies were cooking dinner.
89 This style of cabin is called a "dog trot" cabin. A breezeway is between the kitchen and living area.
104 "Lincoln: On the Prairie" (on a horse reading a book)
105 Crossing the prairie on the way to Illinois' prior state capital, Vandalia. Lincoln was a young legislator in Vandalia (before the capital moved to Springfield).
116 We loved all the Looking for Lincoln signs along the way. Very helpful and informative.
117 As young boy, Lincoln's family moved to Little Pigeon Creek in Indiana. Here is the monument there.
118 On the monument, these friezes: Kentucky Lincoln.
119 Indiana Lincoln.
120 Springfield Illinois Lincoln.
121 Washington DC Lincoln.
122 In heaven Lincoln.
123 Deed from John Quincy Adams to Thomas Lincoln, Abe's father, for the Indiana homestead.
124 Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Abe's mother, died when Abe was only 9. This marks her grave (note the pennies pitched in front of her marker).
125 This is the footprint of young Abe's family's cabin in Indiana.
126 Abraham Lincoln's boyhood pioneer homestead would've looked much like this. Now a National Parks Service site.
127 Plaque says: "The Lincolns carried their water from this spring from 1816 - 1830"
128 Kentucky! Our last official stop. This is the site dedicated to Abraham Lincoln's Birthplace. "Sinking Springs" farm, near Hodgenville Kentucky.
129 The 3 Lincoln travelers at Lincoln's birthplace cabin in Kentucky. This cabin sits inside the monument.
130 Sturdy doors into the room where the cabin stands.
131 Actual picture of Thomas Lincoln (Abe's father) and a drawing of what his mother may've looked like. No picture of her is known to exist.
132 Statue of Abraham Lincoln's family pioneering to Indiana from Kentucky. Abraham was a babe in arms when that happened.
133 Picture of the dedication of the Kentucky birthplace in the 1930's.
134 The Kentucky birthplace farm was called "Sinking Springs" because it had a sinking spring.
135 Spring water still flows from the spring.
136 Oops! Caught posting pictures of the spring to my Facebook.
137 About the sinking spring.
138 For a few years before moving from Kentucky and securing his Indiana homestead, Thomas Lincoln's family (and young son Abe) lived at Knob Creek, Kentucky.
139 Knob Creek Kentucky is really the first home that Lincoln remembered. He was still a baby when they moved from the Sinking Springs farm a few miles away.
140 Taking at break at Knob Creek, in the shade, at the National Parks information booth.
141 Me and Lil Boy Abe in Kentucky.
142 A and A. She's scratching the dog's ear too.
143 Hodgenville Kentucky, the little town near the birthplace of Lincoln.
144 I like this pic.
145 On the town circle in Hodgenville, Kentucky.
146 Self-portrait with braces. And President Lincoln.
147 This was posted on the town circle in Hodgenville.
148 At 5:45 pm, we departed Kentucky to begin the long drive back to North Carolina. What a great trip!
