Lincoln Boyhood Home National Memorial ~Lincoln City, IN

This place managed to get my twins more interested in learning about Abraham Lincoln!

I would say it was a win just for that but it was really interesting also.

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When you marry a woodworker, you get a lot of pictures of furniture…

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See?

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Another picture of a possible project.

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Where Lincoln’s boyhood cabin stood.

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The girls will ask questions all day…

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Beautiful homestead they have set up.

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This man was so nice and helpful!

He answered all of my kiddos questions and believe me there were A LOT!

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Checking out where they would sleep.

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The meat house had a piece of pig hanging in it!

The girls did not want to be in there…

ha

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They have actual animals and try to make it look like a working homestead!

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This was such a fun stop!!!!

I am glad we changed our drive a bit to include this place.

Check out more about it at their site, here.

Next stop

Shawnee National Forest

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