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

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.

* The Lincoln County Historical Park

* 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 Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Springfield, Illinois

He created murals for the Harlem Hospital, Golden State Mutual, American Museum of Natural History, Public School 154, the Bronx Family and Criminal Court and the Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, New York.

" Bush was invited but did not attend the service because he was en route to Springfield, Illinois, to dedicate the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

The Strategic Air and Space Museum, formerly the SAC Museum, was located adjacent to Offutt AFB till moved to its site off of I-80 between Omaha and Lincoln, preserves SAC's heritage in a fashion open to public view.

This version was screened publicly numerous times, including at the University of Washington in 1996 ; at least two presentations by American Cinematheque ; once by the American Museum of the Moving Image ; at the USA Film Festival in Dallas, Texas ; by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, in New York City ; and once at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, NY.

A few boards from the old fort were retained and are now in the Chicago History Museum in Lincoln Park.

* Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska ( 1963 )

* University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska

* In the fiction book The Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Adamant is among various goods inside of an Egyptian tomb on display in the New York Museum of Natural History.

In February 2004, plans were announced for a new Smithsonian Institution-affiliated Museum of African American Music to be built in the city's Coast / Lincoln Park neighborhood.

For example, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is owned and operated by the state of Illinois.

* Lincoln Highway National Museum & Archives

* Carolyn Ducey, " Quilt History Timeline, Pre-History – 1800 ", International Quilt Study Center & Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Today, the Fithian home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and serves as the Vermilion County Museum ; visitors can see Lincoln memorabilia including a bed in which Lincoln slept.

Lincoln is also home to the Arkansas Country Doctor Museum, which includes a collection of medical instruments and personal artifacts from the 1930 to 1960.

The Lincoln School Museum was once a one-room schoolhouse.

In 1998, the Strategic Air and Space Museum moved 30 miles ( 48 km ) southwest to Ashland, just off Interstate 80, midway between Omaha and Lincoln.

On Museum Road near Keble College is a further accommodation complex, consisting of the EPA Centre ( constructed in the early 21st century, containing apartment-style accommodation, teaching facilities and the College's archives ) and 12 terraced houses ( the latter officially called Lincoln Hall, but most commonly referred to simply as ' Mus Road ').

Anderson's Homeland Tour performed at several locations across the United States as well, such as at the Ferst Center for the Arts, Atlanta, Georgia ; The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, New York ; and Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois, co-presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

It was displayed for several years in the Lincoln County Heritage Trust Museum before it was withdrawn again.

In American architecture, neoclassicism was one expression of the American Renaissance movement, ca 1890 – 1917 ; its last manifestation was in Beaux-Arts architecture, and its very last, large public projects were the Lincoln Memorial ( highly criticized at the time ), The National Gallery in Washington, DC ( also heavily criticized by the architectural community as being backward thinking and old fashioned in its design ), and the American Museum of Natural History's Roosevelt Memorial.