Original Lincoln Home Cottage to be Reconstructed

[Joe Di Cola]

(10-26-2021 09:39 AM)Gene C Wrote:  While not as an attractive project, but perhaps a more educational one, would be to reconstruct the "half face camp" structure that the Lincoln's lived in when they first moved to Indiana. Less expensive to build, it would show the visitors to the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial how primitive the conditions that not only the Lincoln family lived in, but many of the new arrivals to the area, and have a greater appreciation of the challenges they faced.

Too much conjecture is involved in constructing a replica of the half-face camp. Even though there is some conjecture involved in the replica cabin in Indiana, there was some archaeology involved based on the location of the hearth from the original cabin. I think we need to stop adding anything that will detract from the already meagre and, in some cases ill-maintained, sites we have.