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Mary Todd Lincoln's girlhood house
1832
Lexington, Kentucky
FloNight (Sydney Poore) and Russell Poore · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
She grew up in a well-off slaveholding family here and was unusually well educated for a girl of her time, in French and literature. Her Kentucky brothers and brothers-in-law fought for the Confederacy while she was First Lady, which made her the object of open accusations of treason in Washington.
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