Due to popularity, Lincoln’s New Salem is expanding its annual candlelight walk event to three weekends in 2025, and they're ...

Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem. The tiny central Illinois village ...

New Salem is a reconstruction of a village where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1831 to 1837. The $8 million in funding comes from Rebuild Illinois, a capital plan that addresses state facilities.

and the Illinois Capital Development Board (CDB) announced that the money is going to Lincoln’s New Salem, the recreation of the log cabin village Abraham Lincoln lived in for six years.