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Lincoln Land Community College is a public community college in Springfield, Illinois. [2] [3] It has extended branches in different locations, including Beardstown, Jacksonville, Litchfield and Taylorville, Illinois. The main campus is less than half a mile from the University of Illinois Springfield.
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 ...
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a nonprofit think tank based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1946, it seeks to "improve quality of life through the effective use, taxation, and stewardship of land." Through education, training, publications, and events, the institute aims to inform international public policy decisions on land ...
The Lincoln Land Community College women's basketball team had trailed most of the afternoon against Union County (N.J.) College in the second round of the NJCAA Division II tournament in Joplin ...
Lincoln Land, seeded ninth, meets No. 8 Union County (N.J.) College (24-4) in the first round of the NJCAA Tournament in Joplin, Missouri on Tuesday at 1 p.m. Parkland and Lake Land College ...
In 1837, Lincoln moved to Springfield from New Salem at the start of his law career. He met his wife, Mary Todd, at her sister's home in Springfield and married there in 1842. The historic-site house at 413 South Eighth Street at the corner of Jackson Street, bought by Lincoln and his wife in 1844, was the only home that Lincoln ever owned.
The Lincoln property lay on land ceded to the United States government as part of treaties with the Piankeshaw, Shawnee and Delaware people in 1804. In 1818 the Indiana General Assembly created Spencer County, Indiana, from portions of Warrick and Perry counties, which included the Lincoln farm. [48] [49]
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, in a log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky. [2] He was a descendant of Samuel Lincoln , an Englishman who migrated from Hingham, Norfolk , to its namesake, Hingham, Massachusetts , in 1638.