27-New Salem

  Lincoln arrived in New Salem in 1831.  The town began two years before when a saw and grist mill opened on the Sangamon River.  Lincoln was a store keeper, a postmaster, a rail splitter and a state legislator.  New Salem was certain it would be the county seat.  A county election decided otherwise.  In the last half of the 1830's, most of New Salem moved to Petersburg.  Lincoln left in 1837.  

     Lincoln and a partner ran a dry goods store from this cabin.