The village where Abraham Lincoln came of age is deteriorating. Long-neglected maintenance has led to major problems in New ...

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to prepare him to be the Union-saving 16th president as any other aspect of his ...

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

The tiny central Illinois village ... River to New Orleans when he snagged his flatboat on the Sangamon River dam at New Salem. “That was destiny,” said Guy Fraker, a Bloomington, Illinois ...

(AP Photo/John O’Connor) Illinois state Sen. Steve McClure, R-Springfield, is seen on Monday, March 10, 2025 in front of the Onstott Cooper Shop, the only original building in the reconstructed ...

Lincoln, a clean-shaven 22-year-old with the barest of formal schooling, had set out in 1831 to haul freight down the ...

New Salem, a tiny central Illinois village where Lincoln spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, has fallen into disrepair.

(AP) — Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem. The tiny central Illinois ...