The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to ...

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 ...

An adept boatman, Lincoln once had a stranded flatboat get off a mill dam. He did this by moving the cargo, before drilling a temporary hole to let the bilge water out. When serving his term in ...