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The state memorial is believed to contain the site of the homestead, from March 1830 until March 1831, of pioneer Thomas Lincoln and about 12 members of his extended family, including grown son Abraham Lincoln. [2] The Lincolns moved to this location, west of Decatur, Illinois, from Indiana in March 1830.
An end of the Lincoln Heritage Trail at the Lincoln Trail Homestead State Memorial in Macon County Illinois.. The Lincoln Heritage Trail is a designation for a series of highways in the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky that links communities with pre-presidential period historical ties to U.S. president Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln arrived with his family in the area in 1830 to settle a section of government land bisected by the river. The site, now Lincoln Trail Homestead State Memorial, was selected by Lincoln's father after the family migrated from Indiana. The 21-year-old Lincoln helped build a 16 foot by 16 foot (4.8 m by 4.8 m) cabin along the river.
The Lincoln Trail State Memorial is a sculpture group designed in 1937 by Nellie Verne Walker and erected in 1938 to commemorate the first entrance of Abraham Lincoln, then a destitute 21-year-old frontiersman, into Illinois.
The current Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site includes three houses on two sites: A reconstruction of the Thomas Lincoln log cabin, completed in 1934 as a project of the Civilian Conservation Corps. It is surrounded by a subsistence farmstead similar to the senior Lincoln's actual farm, is the central feature of the main site. The farm ...
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Lincolnton: Lincoln County Confederate Monument, center of town. [80] Macon: Bibb County Confederate Monument, triangle park downtown (1879). [81] Moved to present location in 1956. Confederate Monument in Macon, GA, c. 1870s; Madison: Morgan County Confederate Monument, Hill Park (1909). [82]
It lies within Harristown Township and is bordered to the east by the city of Decatur, the county seat. Downtown Decatur is 7 miles (11 km) to the east, while Springfield, the state capital, is 33 miles (53 km) to the west. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Harristown has a total area of 1.80 square miles (4.66 km 2), all land. [1]