Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum Journey One

The Plaza
Museum Store
The Illinois Gallery
Mrs. Lincoln's Attic
Journey One
The Pre-Presidential Years
The Union Theater
Journey Two
The White House Years
The Treasures Gallery
Ask Mr. Lincoln
Ghosts of the Library
The Gateway

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Carving a Family Home
Self-Taught
On the River
The Slave Auction
New Salem
Life in Springfield
The Permissive Parent
Campaign 1860
On to Washington

JOURNEY ONE
The Pre-Presidential Years

You enter Journey One through the log cabin.

Carving a Family Home is a recreation of the “woods” around the cabin in Indiana where Lincoln grew up. A young Lincoln is sitting on a fence near the cabin and reading a book while he should be doing his chores.

Log Cabin

In Self-Taught you enter a cabin and discover Lincoln as a teen, reading borrowed books by firelight. His father, Thomas Lincoln, his stepmother, Sally Johnston Bush Lincoln, and his four siblings sleep nearby in this one room cabin.

Self-Taught