| The Log Cabin The original one-room boyhood log cabin home of Lincoln no longer exists. It was decided that an authentic typical cabin that could have been found on the American frontier in the early 1800s had to be located. To achieve this, mid-19th century tax maps of the region were studied. A 30’x30’ tobacco barn, built in the mid-1800s and very similar in style to Lincoln’s, was found in Cynthiana, Kentucky. A second one, 20’x20’, was located in Abington, Virginia. Each was disassembled, marked, shipped to Springfield and reassembled, using genuine materials and techniques, as one cabin in the museum. The cabin needed to be a bit larger than Lincoln’s due to visitor traffic through the structure, which had to be comfortably accommodated. The cabin is set in Indiana, 1818 - the third log cabin in which young Lincoln lived with his family after they moved from Kentucky where he was born. It is surrounded by trees. With the help of historians, studies were made of what the dominant plant growth was in Indiana in the early 19th century. With this information, high fidelity reproductions of Black and White Oak, Ash, Sugar Maple and Flowering Dogwood were made and placed in a natural setting around the cabin. | 
Replication of Lincoln's boyhood log cabin.
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