Today we visited Abe Lincoln's boyhood homesite in southern Indiana. We learned a few interesting things about his childhood family besides about how he learned by firelight. Example: as a young man, he built a rowboat and earned as much as a dollar a day ferrying folk tou to boats passing in the Mississippi. Ferry cmpanies tried to stop him by charging that he illegally ferried. In court, he argued in court that he did not carry folk across the river - only to the middle of the river. The judge saw it Abe's way. Little is known about how the boyhood home looked. Considerable search and excavation turned up ramains of a chimney and foundation. A bronze memorial of these was made and placed there.
the paekdid have a farm setting of how the buildings may have looked
We then passed through Santa Claus IN.
This town has the only Santa Claus Post office in the world, and it has the worlds first (1946) themed (Christmas) amusement park. (Predates Disney by 9 years) The park has world class water rides and wooden roller coaters.
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