Springfield, Illinois: Lincoln Country
Springfield is home to many sites important to the days when Abraham Lincoln lived and worked here, plus an impressive presidential museum and other attractions.
Lincoln sites near Springfield
Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site Visit a re-creation of young Lincoln's 1830s town. Interpreters (left) chronicle frontier life, and self-guided walking tours weave through a tavern, store, one-room school and timbered houses near Petersburg, about 20 miles northwest of Springfield.
Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site Lincoln's father and stepmother, Thomas and Sarah Bush Lincoln, lived on a farm in Lerna (about 100 miles southeast of Springfield) during the 1840s. Today, visitors can see a reproduction of the two-room cabin, furnished with 1840s-era items, and learn about 19th-century rural life.
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