Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).

In 1830, fearing a milk sickness outbreak along the Ohio River, the Lincoln family moved west, where they settled on public land in Macon County, Illinois, another free, non-slave state.

Canoeing down the Sangamon River, Lincoln ended up in the village of New Salem in Sangamon County.

* 1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.

* 1878 – John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.

In 1851 John went to an academy at Pittsfield in Pike County, where he met an older student, John G. Nicolay, with whom he would later work as private secretary to Abraham Lincoln.

* King, Lincoln County, Wisconsin

* County of Lincoln, archaic name for county of Lincolnshire, England

* Lincoln, California, in Placer County

* Lincoln, Madera County, California

* Lincoln, Adams County, Wisconsin, a town

* Lincoln, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, a town

* Lincoln, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, a town

* Lincoln, Burnett County, Wisconsin, a town

* Lincoln, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, a town

* Lincoln, Forest County, Wisconsin, a town

* Lincoln, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, a town

* Lincoln / Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project, Northern Illinois University Libraries

* Original Historical Letters: Lincoln Refuses Lee's Armistice Shapell Manuscript Foundation

" Comparing Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln ," Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 106 ( Summer – Autumn 2008 ), 495 – 512

Lincoln County Historical Museum contains a display detailing the history of the North Platte Canteen, which greeted 6. 5 million service personnel from Christmas Day 1941 through April 1, 1946.

Historical figures from Lincoln County include Billy The Kid and Smokey Bear, whose names help drive the tourism trade that is heavily popularized within the county.

* Lincoln Park Historical Society

* North Lincoln County Historical Museum

University of Nebraska – Lincoln and Buffalo Bill Historical Center.

Speakers at the opening dedication in 1925 included Professor George Lincoln Burr of Cornell University, who worked to complete the manuscript of Lea's Materials for a Study of Witchcraft ; Professor Dana C. Munro of Princeton University, vice president of the American Historical Association, who had used Lea's collections as a young scholar ; and Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia historian and former attorney general of Pennsylvania.

* Broome, Jeff Dog Soldier Justice: The Ordeal of Susanna Alderdice in the Kansas Indian War, Lincoln, Kansas: Lincoln County Historical Society, 2003.

" Lincoln and the Patronage ," American Historical Review ( 1902 ) 8 # 1 pp. 53-69 in JSTOR

Historical figures and events on Earth-C also parallel those of the real world, including the " Second Weird War " ( World War II ; Earth-C's version featured the U. S. and the Allies fighting the " Ratzis " ( Nazis )) and President Abraham Linkidd ( a goat, Earth-C's version of Abraham Lincoln ), who was immortalized in the nation's capital in the " Linkidd Memorial.

The Lincoln Memorial Bridge Pylons, are a public artworks by French artist Raoul Josset, located on the Lincoln Memorial Bridge on U. S. Route 50 on the grounds of the George Rogers Clark National Historical Park.

* Everett Dick, Conquering the Great American Desert ( Lincoln: Nebraska State Historical Society, 1975 ).

The former railroad station is a local landmark, and serves as the headquarters of the West Lincoln Historical Society.

Also located in Lincoln City is the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, a national park managed by the National Park Service that includes a Living Historical Farm that attempts to recreate the early nineteenth-century period during which the Lincoln family lived in the area.

Sculptor David Frech of Newburgh, New York, was commissioned by The United States Historical Society of Richmond to commemorate the historic arrival of Abraham Lincoln and his son Thomas Lincoln and their tour of the burnt-out Union-captured Richmond, Virginia, April 4, 1865, 10 days before his assassination.

* Leonard, Elizabeth D. " One Kentuckian ’ s Hard Choice: Joseph Holt and Abraham Lincoln ," Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 106 ( Summer-Autumn 2008 ), 373-407.

The reception was held in a private dining room of the Webster Hotel on Lincoln Park West.

The chief advocate and driving force for improving public health in Chicago was Dr. John H. Rauch, M. D., who established a plan for Chicago's park system in 1866, created Lincoln Park by closing a cemetery filled with festering, shallow graves, and helped establish a new Chicago Board of Health in 1867 in response to an outbreak of cholera.

Some of the parks along the waterfront include Lincoln Park, Grant Park, Burnham Park and Jackson Park.

Lincoln Park, the largest of the city's parks, covers and has over 20 million visitors each year, making it second only to Central Park in New York City in number of visitors.

Lincoln Park is a park stretching for along the waterfront and containing the Lincoln Park Zoo and the Lincoln Park Conservatory.

* Dante Alighieri in Dante Park at Lincoln Center, New York City and in Meridian Hill Park, Washington D. C .-castings of the same work, 1921

At the unveiling of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington's Lincoln Park, Douglass was the keynote speaker.

* Presidents Park – Freshmen – Completed in 1989, and housing approximately 1, 100 students in twelve halls ( Adams, Kennedy, Roosevelt, Harrison, Lincoln, Truman, Jackson, Madison, Wilson, Jefferson, Monroe, Washington ).

* Lincoln Park ( disambiguation )

The band ’ s renaissance culminated with a change in name ; from Hybrid Theory, the band once again changed its name, this time to Linkin Park, a play on and homage to Santa Monica ’ s Lincoln Park.

* 1961 – Lar Park Lincoln, American actress