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Hannibal Hamlin’s Death Couch

Bangor, ME

Bangor Public Library displays the couch on which Hannibal Hamlin, Abraham Lincoln’s first vice president, died in 1891. Rather than being hidden away in storage, the piece of furniture survives as an unusually direct artifact from a former vice president’s final moments.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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