Young Abraham Lincoln’s New Salem is due for a makeover
New Salem, a tiny central Illinois village where Lincoln spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, has fallen into disrepair.
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Young Abraham Lincoln’s tiny Illinois town is due for a makeover
PETERSBURG, Ill. (AP) — Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem.