Miscellaneous pamphlets, etc. about the Lincoln National Memorial Highway.

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Miscellaneous pamphlets, etc. about the Lincoln National Memorial Highway.

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The Lincoln National Memorial Highway, labeled with historic markers, follows substantially the route taken by the Lincoln family in their migration from Indiana to Illinois in the spring of 1830. A different road named in honor of Lincoln, the Lincoln Highway, was the first successful transcontinental highway (and ran through the suburbs of Chicago from Chicago Heights to Joliet to St. Charles).

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...