Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial

[Gene C]

Attached is a rather interesting article of 57 pages.

"AN ARCHEOLOGICAL OVERVIEW AND
ASSESSMENT OF LINCOLN BOYHOOD NATIONAL
MEMORIAL, SPENCER COUNTY, INDIANA"

This seems to have been prepared for the National Park Service in 1997

Not sure how I found this, but I found sections of it very interesting.
For those of you interested in trash dump and privies, you will find p 30 of particular interest.

Other interesting topics include
The Farm After the Lincolns
The Nancy Hanks Cemetery
The History of Lincoln City
Reference for Further Studies
Cabin Architecture
Archeology at the Lincoln Boyhood Memorial
Misc. Photos and Maps

https://npshistory.com/publications/libo/aoa.pdf

If you are interested in Lincoln's early life in Indiana, you will find this informative with information not found in most history books.

[David Lockmiller]

(Yesterday 11:56 AM)Gene C Wrote:  https://npshistory.com/publications/libo/aoa.pdf

If you are interested in Lincoln's early life in Indiana, you will find this informative with information not found in most history books.

A year later Thomas went back to Hardin
County, Kentucky and married widow Sally
Bush Johnston. Sally, age 32, moved to the
Lincoln farm with her three children, Elizabeth
13, John 10, and Matilda 9—where they joined
Thomas Lincoln 42, and his children Sarah 13
and Abraham 11, and Dennis Hanks 21. For
two years eight people lived in the one-room
cabin (Warren 1959: 58-62). In 1821 the
crowding was somewhat alleviated when
Dennis Hanks married Elizabeth Johnston and
they moved into their own cabin a mile to the
east (Warren 1959:84).