Early European settlers were drawn to the temperate climate of the eastern U.S. as spring rains and summer warmth created the perfect recipe for productive farming. Plentiful yields fed them throughout the bitter winters and were key to their survival. But in 1816, summer never came.

On January 7th, 1909, Booker T. Washington wrote a letter to a member of the Lincoln Farm Association recommending Isaiah T. Montgomery to give a speech for the cornerstone dedication ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial Building. Read more to explore this story, and learn about this 1909 event.

Explore the similarities between Lincoln and Garfield in both their lives, political careers, and their assassinations.

Abraham Lincoln arrived in Washington, D.C. on February 23rd, 1861, in disguise. Lincoln’s life had been threatened after he won the election and he made the decision to travel to Washington, D.C.

On April 18, 1906, the Lincoln Farm Association was created “for the purposes of honoring and perpetuating the memory of Abraham Lincoln, the taking and holding of 110 acres of his birthplace farm, and the development and maintenance of the same.” This was a monumental event due to the increasing call to preserve the legacy of Lincoln’s life.

Opportunities to attend school were scarce on the frontier when Abraham Lincoln was young boy. He later said his education was acquired "by littles" and "did not amount to one year."

On January 6, 1920, Kentucky voted in favor of the Nineteenth Amendment. By August of 1920, 36 states (including Kentucky) ratified the amendment, giving women the right to vote.

What role did Native American Tribes play in the Underground Railroad? This article provides an overview of some ways Native Americans intervened and assisted freedom seekers in their journeys to freedom.

In May 1838, the Cherokee removal process began. U.S. Army troops, along with various state militia, moved into the tribe’s homelands and forcibly evicted more than 16,000 Cherokee Indian people from their homelands in Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia. They were first sent to so-called “round up camps,” and soon afterward to one of three emigration camps. Once there, the U.S. Army gave orders to move the Cherokee west.

The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site has a nationally significant Memorial Landscape honoring the sixteenth president of the United States. The location of Lincoln’s birthplace is commemorated by John Russell Pope in a Neoclassical style Memorial Building and associated formal landscape.