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Here we are at Abraham Lincoln’s New Salem in Illinois. He lived and worked here from 1830-1837. The state of Illinois has reconstructed the log cabin village from the original cabins on their original foundations here. At the village blacksmiths shop the blacksmith was working on making some tongs at the forge. Even the blacksmiths shop was a log cabin.
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Wikipedia: “While in his twenties, the future U.S. President made his living in this frontier village as a boatman, soldier in the Black Hawk War, general store owner, postmaster, surveyor, and rail splitter, and was first elected to the Illinois General Assembly.”
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