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Civil War Days Re-enactment on May 21 & 22, 2011 at Conner Prairie

Conner Prairie will travel back 150 years to the beginning of the US Civil War, bringing it back to Indiana. Re-enactors from across the Midwest will bring the Civil War to life, turning the living history park into Union and Read more >

Spencer County – Lincoln Pioneer Village and Museum

My family and I took a quick trip to Spencer County, Indiana to visit several Abraham Lincoln historic sites and Santa Claus. This is one of our stops. Spencer County can lay claim to being a pivotal point of American Read more >

Spencer County – McKenzie’s Grill, Rockport, IN

My family and I took a quick trip to Spencer County, Indiana to visit several Abraham Lincoln historic sites and Santa Claus. We stopped here for dinner on our first night. After a long day of visiting Abraham Lincoln memorials, Read more >

Spencer County – Lincoln State Park

My family and I took a quick trip to Spencer County, Indiana to visit several Abraham Lincoln historic sites and Santa Claus. This is one of our stops. Indiana has a strong claim to American history as the boyhood home Read more >

Spencer County – Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial

My family and I took a quick trip to Spencer County, Indiana to visit several Abraham Lincoln historic sites and Santa Claus. This is one of our stops. Any American president’s boyhood is always fuel for a historian’s fire. There’s Read more >

Spencer County – Buffalo Run Farm, Grill & Gifts

My family and I took a quick trip to Spencer County, Indiana to visit several Abraham Lincoln historic sites and Santa Claus. This is one of our stops. Buffalo Run Farm, Grill & Gifts has an interesting tie to Abraham Read more >

Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Plaza opens in Spencer County

Illinois may claim Abraham Lincoln as their own, but they forget that Lincoln’s formative years were spent here in southern Indiana. You can’t have the man without first raising the boy, so Indiana has more than a threadbare claim to Read more >