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Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City, IN

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Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial

Walk the farm where Abraham Lincoln grew up, see his mother's grave and watch rangers in period dress work a pioneer homestead.

3027 E South St · Lincoln City, IN

About Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial preserves the southern Indiana farm where Abraham Lincoln lived from age 7 to 21, between 1816 and 1830. The limestone Memorial Building holds five sculpted panels tracing his life, plus a film and museum exhibits. A trail leads past the grave of his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, to the Living Historical Farm, where staff in period clothing work an 1820s-style homestead near the Cabin Site Memorial, a bronze casting of sill logs and hearthstones.

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