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Rockport

Where the Lincolns landed

Lincoln at Lincoln Pioneer Village

The Lincoln Pioneer Village & Museum in Rockport offers hundreds of artifacts from the area's past including a hutch made by Tom Lincoln. The Pioneer Village is comprised of cabins that are replicas from the Lincoln era and were built as part of a W.P.A. project.

Lincoln Landing

In 1828, Abraham Lincoln launched a flatboat filled with produce from a landing on River Road at the east end of Main Street in Rockport. His journey took him to New Orleans where for the first time he saw slaves.

The landing is still here, now called Lincoln Landing and commemorated with a plaque. 14 years after leaving Indiana, Lincoln returned to campaign for Henry Clay, speaking at the Spencer County Courthouse (the old courthouse was replaced in 1920 by a grand structure which sits on an old fashioned town square in downtown Rockport). There's a mile walking path along the Ohio River at the landing and a plaque noting that Lincoln stopped at the Rockport Tavern which once stood on this spot.

Lincoln Ferry Park

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Abraham Lincoln

Spencer County

Text © Jane Ammeson

Image by Indiana's Abe Lincoln