Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic ...

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

Scott Williams’ story, “A Tennessee Frontier Friendship,” was chosen as second-place finisher in the adult category of the 2025 Eugene Gulish Writing Competition, sponsored by the Paris-Henry County ...

After spending weeks traveling and selling their oxen in Pittsburgh, they take a flatboat down the Ohio River. Finally, after 78 days, they arrive in New Bolton, where they are welcomed by new ...

Here, she said, villagers got their first glimpse of a young Abraham Lincoln, whose flatboat became stuck on the dam of the grist mill's pond. They also witnessed Lincoln's ingenuity in righting ...