Show old salem lives TN N UIS HIS long amazing journey from 1 the backwoods of kentucky to the white louse house and enduring glory ab raham lincoln paused for a while on a hilltop beside the muddy sangamon there in the log village tillage of new salem he passed six youthful years yearn learning gathering experience and strength building the character that was to make for him a place among the worlds immortals new salem failed to prosper eventually it was abandoned its log stores and houses decayed and disappeared except that lincoln passed that way few would r remember that such a town had haa been because he be did past pasa that way and because the years he be dwelt there left r A vi lincoln museum at old salem their impress upon Ms his mind and heart new salem old salem now will never dever be forgotten its dozen log buildings restored it has become old salem state park through the efforts of many devoted admirers of lincoln beginning 23 25 years ago with the purchase of the townsite te and its presentation to the old salem lincoln league the town will stand forever looking almost as a it looked when lincoln lived there millions visiting it in years to come seeing where lincoln lived and how sit n lived will understand at once the simplicity and the instant grasp of realities that distinguished his thinking throughout its his life ilfe |