Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site

A must see if you are looking for the full Lincoln experience

Travel through time and feel what it must have been like for Lincoln starting his adult life out on his own. The story of him coming to this town is a very interesting one. Start in the visitor center...

Stretch your legs and learn!

After a long day in the car during our Lincoln Discovery Tour, the park was a good way to stretch our legs! As this was the home of Lincoln’s early days, it was a good beginning to our Springfield tr...

Lovely old log cabin’s

Stopped here in my Route 66 coach tour. The tour guide got the times wrong and we arrived to early. So we had a wonder about outside the building’s as the volunteers had not arrived to open them up. O...

A very cool look into the past...

The candlelight walk through the town offers a unique view of the town itself because you have characters telling you about the individuals who lived at this site. If you go during the day time, the...

Wonderful

Excellent historic site and it's free! There was a great movie about Lincoln's life in New Salem, a nice little museum, and then the recreated village with costumed interpreters. The village was re...