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Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site

Petersburg, IL

A reconstructed 1830s frontier village recreates the small settlement where Abraham Lincoln lived before moving to Springfield.

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

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Source: dnr.illinois.gov/parks/park.lincolns-new-salem.html

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