Archive for February 28th, 2007
Budget Crunch Hits New Salem
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007Abraham Lincoln lived in New Salem from July 1831 to April 15, 1837. His time in the village has become legendary. He began by earning the acceptance of the roughest frontiersmen by wrestling local strongman Jack Armstrong and then steadily progressed from store clerk to store owner, surveyor, postmaster, soldier, and within five years of [...]