Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site will host a series of fireside chats on Wednesdays and Saturdays beginning this week.

We have letters which he wrote to John Calhoun, former Surveyor of Sangamon County, Illinois, who employed Lincoln and was closely associated with him during the New Salem years; a memorandum ...

At age twenty-two, Lincoln moved to New Salem, Illinois. After only six months in his new town, he announced his plans to run for a seat in the State Legislature. During the April 6- August 27 Black ...

A New Salem man was arrested over the weekend after he crashed head-on into a patrol vehicle when he was being chased by law enforcement in Mercer County. Dante Schwarting, 38, is in custody at ...

Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, in 1809. When he was 22, he moved to New Salem, Illinois. In 1834, he was elected ...