SANDRIDGE: Lincoln’s Home Away from Home during the New Salem Years
by Guy FrakerSANDRIDGE: Lincoln’s Home Away from Home during the New Salem Years By Guy Fraker The seminal role of New Salem in Abraham Lincoln’s maturation and development is well known. The concurrent influence of the nearby Sandridge area and its people during these formative years is not as well known. Sandridge encompasses approximately 10 square […]
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New Salem
by Guy Fraker, Mark B. PohladSpotlight on: New Salem by Guy Fraker and Mark Pohlad When Lincoln Walked the Streets of New Salem By Guy Fraker The itinerant Abraham Lincoln arrived in New Salem 1831, settling there until 1837. During this period, he spent considerable time in the Sand Ridge area to the west, to which a number of New […]
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