Contact Information:
Lincoln Log Cabin
State Historic Site
400 S. Lincoln Highway Road
P.O. Box 100
Lerna, Illinois 62440
Phone: (217) 345-1845
Fax: (217) 345-6472
www.lincolnlogcabin.org
lincoln_log@ihpa.state.il.us
The site is open year-round from 8:30AM until dusk, Wednesday through Sunday.
The Visitor Center is open 9AM-5PM, Wed.-Sun., April through October; and 9AM-4PM Wed.-Sun., November through March. It is closed on winter holidays.
The Living History Program operates 9AM-5PM, Wed.-Sun., from May through October.
Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site was the 1840s home of Thomas and Sarah Bush Lincoln, father and stepmother of our 16th president. Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer living in Springfield by the time his parents lived here, but he did visit them periodically.
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Today, Lincoln Log Cabin is an 86-acre historic site that is owned and operated by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Division of Historic Sites. The site includes an accurate reproduction of the Lincolns' two-room cabin that was constructed on the original cabin site in 1935 as a CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) project. A working living history farm has been developed around the cabin, and a second farmstead, the Stephen Sargent Farm, has been moved to the site to help broaden visitors' understanding of 1840s rural life in Illinois. One mile north is the Moore Home State Historic Site, a reconstructed frame home where Abraham Lincoln bid his stepmother farewell in January of 1861 before leaving to assume the Presidency.
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