Lincoln Boyhood
Historic Resource Study
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
COVER
ABSTRACT
LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF PLATES
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION
Methodology
Historical Research
Field Survey
Project Personnel
CHAPTER II. ENVIRONMENTAL OVERVIEW
Physiography-Geomorphology
Bedrock Geology
Lithic Resources
Soils
Climate
Flora and Fauna
CHAPTER III. AMERICAN INDIAN SETTLEMENT
Cultural Sequence
Paleoindian Occupation (? to 8000 B.C.)
Archaic Occupation (8000 to 700 B.C.)
Woodland Occupation (700 B.C. to A.D. 1000)
Late Prehistoric Occupation (A.D. 1000 to 1650)
CHAPTER IV. EURO-AMERICAN/AMERICAN INDIAN RELATIONS
Proto-Historic and Contact Period Aboriginal Occupation (1600 to 1750)
Euro-American Occupation (1675-1785)
Expansionism by the United States (1785-1815)
Land Cessions by Indian Tribes
CHAPTER V. SETTLEMENT AND IMMIGRATION
Federal Land Laws (1785-1820)
The Land Ordinance of 1785
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
The Land Act of 1800 and the Introduction of a Credit System
The Land Act of 1820
Settlement of Southern Indiana
Organization of Spencer County
CHAPTER VI. PIONEER LIFEWAYS
Transportation Systems
Rivers and Streams
Roads
Agricultural History
Significant Factors in Land Settlement
Homesteading
Social Institutions
CHAPTER VII. LINCOLN OCCUPATION PERIOD
The Lincolns in Kentucky
The Indiana Homestead
Lincoln's Boyhood
The Indiana Legacy
CHAPTER VIII. POST-LINCOLN HISTORY
Lincoln City
Memorializing the Lincolns
The First Memorial to Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Establishing Non-Profit Associations
Designing the Lincoln State Memorial
The Trail of Twelve Stones and the Cabin Site Memorial (1931-1938)
Construction of the Memorial Building and Court (1938-1945)
Designation as a National Memorial
CHAPTER IX. RECOMMENDATIONS
Additional Research Needs
Agricultural Practices
Economic and Social Development
National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form
Additional Interpretive Programs
Audio Tour
Trail of Twelve Stones
Nature Trails
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX A: ADDENDUM TO THE NATIONAL REGISTER
OF HISTORIC PLACES NOMINATION FORM FOR THE LINCOLN BOYHOOD NATIONAL
MEMORIAL
LIST OF FIGURES
1. Site Plan of the
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
2. Map of Indiana Showing
Physiographic Units and Glacial Boundaries (Schneider, 1966: 41)
3. Map of Indiana Showing
Bedrock Physiographic Units (Gutschick, 1966:54)
4. 1935 Map Showing
Percent of Sheet Erosion and Gullying by County (Sieber and Munson,
1994: 86)
5. Indian Villages and
Tribal Distribution in the Northwest Territory, c. 1768 (Tanner, 1987:
58-59)
6. 1800 and 1803 Maps of
Indiana Territory (Buley, 1950:1:62)
7. Indian Treaties and
Land Cessions (Sieber and Munson, 1994: 22)
8. Map of the Northwest
Territory as Established by the Ordinance of 1787 (Day, 1988: 28)
9. Map Depicting
Separation of Michigan and Illinois Territories (Buley, 1950: 1:63)
10. Land Districts and
Offices, 1812 (Rohrbough, 1968)
11. Land Districts and
Offices, 1819 (Rohrbough, 1968)
12. Indiana Counties,
1816 (Sieber and Munson, 1994: 24)
13. Map of Southwestern
Indiana Taken from the Diary of David Thomas, 1816
14. Map of Original Land
Entries in Vicinity of Lincoln Farmstead
15. Drawing of Early Ohio
River Flatboat (Sieber and Munson, 1994: 27)
16. Early Roads and
Trails in Indiana (Madison, 1990: 76)
17. The Little Pigeon
Community, c. 1816-1830 (Warren, 1991: 100-101)
18. 1816-1830 Base Map of
Little Pigeon Vicinity (Bearss, 1967)
19. 1879 Map of Lincoln
City (Griffing, 1879)
20. 1896 Map of Lincoln
City (Wright, 1896)
21. Allee and Plaza Site
Plan, 1927-1938 (McEnaney, 2001: 15)
22. Site Plan of Lincoln
State Park and Nancy Hanks Lincoln State Memorial, c. 1932
23. Allee and Plaza Site
Plan, 1938-1944 (McEnaney, 2001: 27)
24. Floor Plan of the
Memorial Building (Outdoor Indiana, 1941: 1)
25. Current Site Plan of
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial (McEnaney, 2001: 49)
26. Current Site Plan of
Allee and Plaza (McEnaney, 2001: 51)
27. Comprehensive
Cultural Resources Base Map of Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
(Adapted from McEnaney, 2001: 49)
LIST OF PLATES
1. 1959 Photo of
Nancy Hanks Lincoln Grave Marker and Ornamental Iron Fence
2. 1959 Photo of Cabin
Site Memorial
3. 1959 Photo of
Cloister in Memorial Building
4. 1959 Photo of
Railroad Tracks that Pass Through Park
5. 1959 Photo of Lake
Lincoln at Nearby Lincoln State Park
6. 1959 Photo of Sate
Route 162 and Entry to Park
7. 1959 Photo of Allee,
Looking Toward Flagpole and Cemetery
8. 1959 Photo of
Interior of Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial Hall
9. View of Living
History Farm
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Last Updated: 19-Jan-2003
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