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Lincoln's New Salem
- Creator:
- Springfield Convention & Visitors Bureau
- Location:
- Illinois, Sangamon County, Springfield
- Origin Date:
- 1988-1990
- Materials:
- paper
- Measurements:
- overall: 28 in x 22 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.081.2422
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Fine Art
Description
This poster is features a winter photograph by Terry Farmer of two log cabin buildings with a split rail fence in front of one of them in Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site, a reconstruction of the former pioneer village of New Salem in Menard County, Illinois, where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1831 to 1837. New Salem was founded in 1828, when James Rutledge and John Camron built a gristmill on the Sangamon River. Over the first few years of its existence, the town grew rapidly, but after the county seat was located in nearby Petersburg, the village began to shrink and by 1840, it was abandoned. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
