Show 20 ma L 14 0 bmw leak i bem 00 c aa r a 41 dow 1 NO RA N 0 0 4 av ag 47 aa wn A ov AA 1 aw U ey n V dij i NO 14 aa I 1 4 IN P f I 1 9 I 1 V A I 1 t s i ma ea A f V xe W A vi y ac X A f ll 11 aya 1 V XV i n V A 4 al arx al y t W A y T VIX Y 67 N 1 A A A N B fa oam it y t y ty Tty axy t N 4 AY AV 7 J 4 7 f IT M A al 4 4 C 1 41 now I 1 rutledge and cameron mill 15 peler lukins shoemaker 2 lincon s flat boat 16 or dr brainers Ra iners office 3 mill dam 17 bale a 3 carding machine hoi house I 1 afy slat Sl S MT j boat 1 18 trent brothers 5 store 19 phil man morris tanner Wi utility lity 20 alexander AIe xander waddell hatt hatter er 7 11 1 bom born 1830 21 robt johnson res wheelwright 8 rev john cameron s home 22 H res and cooper shop 9 flut ledge tavern and home 23 kelso residence O springfield road 24 miller res and blacksmith shop 11 1 lincoln berry grocery 25 school taught by minta gral graham 12 dr john alien allen s residence 26 grave yard 13 13 H I 1 stora store 27 row herenden 14 14 chrisman Chris mIn brol store sangamon 28 R r by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN A blend of mirth and sadness smiles and tears A quaint knight errant of the pioneers A homely hero born of 0 star and sod A peasant prince a masterpiece ot of god 0 THOSE who know their lincoln and every good american should read and reread this bible ot of amer the name of new salem calls up a chapter in his life that no man can read without smiles and tears and wonder onder tor lor new salem was abraham s Lincol ns town tonn during the six i u 5 sears ears m which aich marled marked the first stage x of his it Is development from a quaint knight inight errant of the pioneers to a masterpiece of god he ile arri arrived yet at new salem in 1831 a stranger friendless uneducated penniless boy b by working on a flatboat fla thoat for 10 a month as he himself put it in 1837 he be left new salem to take tale up his law practice in springfield in those momentous six years he lie had trans formed himself from nn an ignorant and uncouth bouth of twenty two to a man of acknowledged promise and ability with more than a local popularity and an ambition that spurred him to travel far for those six year were crowded vears it wat mim at new salem that lincoln earned his nickname ot of honest abe and incidentally fastened upon himself a burden of debt which he lie was mas never able fully to wipe out until his fortieth year after his election to congress in 1849 1840 it vasi at new salem that he was clerk and storekeeper that he studied grammar and black stone that he lie was mas a captain in the black hawl war that he was deputy surveyor that he was postmaster that he was defeated and then elected for the legislature and it was at new salem hat that he loed and wooed mooed and lost ann rutledge Hut ledge over whose death he nearly lost his reason from grief new salem was founded in 1828 soon after lincoln went meat to springfield the little town toan began to decline its people left for more accessible places by 1845 new salem bad been abandoned today under the auspices auspice of the old salem lin coin league an organization formed in 1917 honest abes town Is being restored in facsimile it w will be e in n every eiery possible poss e detail e a tike e the new salem which he knew old maps old prints old deeds every record obtainable have bave been consulted to make the new village an exact reproduction of the old the only new building Is the lincoln museum william randolph hearst gave the property the cost of rebuilding is being met by popular subscription the work will mill be done somo some time this summer it Is 18 expected old salem state park old salem state park will be new salem s ne new av name its purpose Is to for posterity the environment and atmosphere that helped make lincoln tho the man As to the photographs here reproduced the portrait of honest abo abe Is one of the earliest aboto photographs ephs he lie had taken and gives the best idea of his appearance as a young man the numbered led plan Is from the architects working model new salem first called camerons mill was mas on the sangamon ban gamon river then spelled San bangalo ganin and pronounced Sanga maw 20 miles northwest of in those days new salem was mits la in sangamon Sang amun county with mith Spring springfield 1 d a as 8 the co county tin t y seat springfield itself was still a mere village having a n population of 1000 or perhaps 1100 the capital of the state was set at vandalla and waiting for the parliamentary tact of abraham I 1 lincoln end and the long nine to take it to spring blell the historian of the restoration project says that the first firs settlers of new salem were john 31 cuveron C num on and hla his uncle james rutledge alio ile entend their claims on july 29 20 1828 here they erected their grist and saw mills will both housed in one ii structure built out into the sangamon aher that fringed the town site new salem grew up around this mill existed already at clary clarys s groc at n place now called athens at sugar croie and at indian point all athin un or gwehe fiffles of new alem with a mill to attract these settlers the opportunity tor for business busl niss at the new ath ment IV 4 ja awid 1 lk 1 Z macy was tood and samuel and john mcneill arcs pro 3 bently erected a store building of logs they sold tea ten coffee sugar salt and whisky hisky in the grocery line and blue calico brown bromn muslin cotton chain t and with it n few ladles ladies hats and other othe r ornamental feminine apparel in their dry goods department john mcneils ls right name was nas john lie ile quickly made a fortune of about and wooed and won mon ann rutledge then he be left to bring ia mother and sisters from new york A long delay broke oft off the engagement and lincoln then won mon ann Mc lamer returned to find ann dead of feer fener 0 town gets a postoffice Post office I 1 on christinas christmas day in 1829 09 f the historian goes on to sai a post office was inas established in ne new salem and samuel hill was mas made postmaster george warburton then built a store building and put in a stock of goods but soon sold out to the chrisman Chrls man brothers one of whom born isaac P became postmaster on november 24 1831 william clary the brother of john jolin who lie gave his name to the g yovo gone one where he settled in 1810 1819 erected and became proprietor of clary a grocery then came doctor alien allen who he erected a dwelling across the street south from the hill mcneill store in addition to his professional duties doctor alien allen conducted a sunday school he ile was an ardent temperance pan and formed the first temperance society in the community the place of meeting was mag in bis his residence or in the log school house erected shortly before this time on the hillside south of new salem doctor alien allen was mas both ered as to whether it was right or wrong to en gage in the practice of his profession on sundays and compromised the matter by relieving the but giving his earnings on that day wholly to the work of the lord then during the summer of 1830 henry moved from sugar grove erected a dwelling and established a coopers shop supplying the kegs and barrels for the flour and meal made at the mill and the containers for the cured pork shipped by flatboat to the markets of th tle e south generally from Beards beardstown town to which place it was hauled in wagons denton off ut arrives during the summer of 1831 denton on his return from a flatboat excursion to new or leans contracted for lot 14 north of slain main street and erected a store building the deed thereto be ing dated fated september 2 of that year then came a rush of other settlers philemon morris a tan tang ner erected a dwelling and established a tan ard joshua miller a black blacksmith and wagon maker built a residence and established a shop alexander furgeson and peter lukins the shoemakers robert johnson the wheelwright right who made looms spinning wheels heels and furniture mar tin waddell the hatter batter who mho made hats out of rabbit fur wool and the fur of other animals the dale date family faintly headed by jacob jacoh bale who bought and operated hills a carding machine and storehouse for wool sool the herndon brothers others Rr ers era alio lie established a store west of the james nut rutledge ledge residence and inn and in a part of the house of joshua johua miller which was mits double ifield his brother in law jack kelso whose wife i ife kept boarders occasionally and who abe himself was the champion hunter and fisherman of the village henry sinco since came in the fall of 1831 and sold out at the end of a bear ear to doctor Reg riler also cumo came doctor duncan Du rican david 11 herry isiac is inc cur bur lier 1 admond greer isaac wine collamer Gol lamer robert and eluam merely mcneely caleb carmen moved there from rock cinter after brent left and made slides thua the ton toun soon became self supporting sup and had it not been for the tl it it it was nas nguot inaccessible except from the w est there Is no rea AA aa i af T con son NN why by it should not have bane grown and become the metropolis of the county lincoln first kaw new salem in april lau when he lie and his flatboat crew had their famous adventure on the milldam he ile was on his way from to new orleans where he be saw the selling of slaves and said if ever ener I 1 get a chance to hit that thing III hit lift it hard july 11 1 1831 lincoln walked into hew new salem to serve as clerk in the store when it should be ready the town election at that time was held during the first week meek in august and lincoln being about the polling place was mas asked by mentor graham the man who lie later became his friend and tench teacher cr it if he lie could write lincoln replied 1 I can make a few rabbit tracks whereupon he lie was mas invited in to assist in keeping tally the regular clerk having failed to appear it Is said that during the lull full in voting lincoln improved the opportunity port unity to tell stories so here m was as lincoln s introduction to politics but he was mas a finished storyteller story teller even then tom reed of maine the famous speaker of the house of representatives once said A statesman Is a successful who Is dead the humor and sarcasm of this are exceeded only by its value as a popular gauge of politics and poll ll clans but where abraham lincoln Is concerned all signs fall lie he was a consummate politician all his life and he be never hesitated to seek public preferment pre ferments Lincol ns first campaign after a honest abe had been in new salem a year or so he lie ran for the state legislature lie ile had already learned to write as Is shown by his announcement of his candidacy which concludes thus eiers m man min in Is said to have his peculiar ambition whether it be true or not I 1 can say for one that I 1 have hane no other so great ns as that of being truly esteemed of my fel by rendering my self worthy of their esteem how far I 1 shall succeed in gratifying this ambition Is yet to be developed I 1 am oung and unknown to many of you I 1 alas as born and have ever remained in the most mot mo t humble walks of life I 1 have hane no wealth or popular relations or friends to recommend me my case Is throw Ili roin n exclusively upon the In depend ent voters of the county and it elected they will have conferred a favor upon me tor for which I 1 shall be uni emitting in my labors to compensate but it the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in tte background I 1 have hae been too fu fa millar with disappointments to be very much chagrined well I 1 loncoln V avna as beaten by ieter peter cartwright ho he itinerant preacher whom he lie defeated in 1840 for congress but new salem went for honest abo abe I 1 n with lilt votes notes out of 0 the cast and twi beara ears later he lie was triumphantly elected nobody ever saw any difference between the Ab abraham I 1 of new salem and the abr abraham abam I 1 loncoln ot of the IN valte bite house lie ile ne never er changed Mo moreover remer here there was its something in his lowly origin and in the etory story of hit life that brought him close to the people as one of them and in the dei development elop ment ot of I 1 hi hil enn there la to no more fascinating chapter than zem salem 1 37 |