Illinois, The Land Of Lincoln

Illinois does not call itself "the [whatever] state", but the "Land of Lincoln", referring to its adopted son Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president.  One place important to his life that the state maintains is the Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site, located on a back road somewhere between Charleston and Greenup.  This is where young Abe lived with father Thomas and his stepmother Sarah.  In front of the visitor center is this covered wagon.

"Go through the barn", the man at the visitor center told me.  This instruction seemed a bit strange, but the walkway to the cabin did indeed lead through the barn.

The path led past the chicken coop.

How now, brown cows.

Here's the cabin, which is a reconstruction of the original.

This is (and maybe was) the view out the back door.

After I left the Lincoln Log Cabin area, I drove southward to the Lincoln Trail State Memorial.  This monument is in Westport, Illinois, across the Wabash River from Vincennes, Indiana.  The Lincoln family, led by Thomas, crossed from Indiana into Illinois near this location.

If you turn around from where I stood to take this last picture, you would see some steps leading you up to a road, which continues over a bridge into Vincennes.