Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
Lincoln's Life in Southern Indiana
The best place to being the journey through Lincoln’s boyhood is at the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial in Lincoln City on Highway 162, the site of where the Lincoln lives from 1816 to 1830.
Here you can follow trails to the gravesite of Nancy Hanks Lincoln and see where the family’s cabin once stood. A replica of the Lincoln farm shows how hard life was back then in Southern Indiana where there were still bears and other wild life.
Park rangers, dressed in period clothing, perform the tasks that the Lincolns and other settlers would have done as part of their everyday chores.
Follow the Trail of Twelve Stones that connects the home site of Abraham Lincoln's youth with the pioneer cemetery where his mother is buried.
Beginning just east of the Cabin Site Memorial on the Thomas Lincoln Farm, the stones are arranged in chronological order at irregular intervals along the trail. Each commemorates a major event in Lincoln's life and career.