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New Salem, where Lincoln arrived with nothing
Menard County, Illinois
Amos Oliver Doyle · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
He came off a flatboat at twenty-two, failed as a shopkeeper, split rails, ran the post office, taught himself law and left six years later for Springfield. The village itself failed too and was gone by 1840. What stands is a reconstruction on the original site, built in the 1930s from the surveys and the recollections of people who had lived there.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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