Abraham Lincoln
1809 to 1865
Sixteenth president, who led the Union through the Civil War
Founders and leaders
Abraham Lincoln was born in a one room log cabin in Kentucky in 1809, taught himself law, and became the sixteenth president just as the Southern states began to leave the Union. He led the country through the Civil War, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and was shot in April 1865, five days after Lee's surrender.
The surprise is in Yosemite. On June 30, 1864, in the middle of the war, Lincoln signed the Yosemite Grant, setting the valley aside for the public, an early step toward the national parks. In Washington, his seated marble figure by Daniel Chester French is 19 feet tall; it was planned at 10 and enlarged so the temple would not swallow it. Go early or after dark, when the steps are quiet and the Reflecting Pool holds the Washington Monument.
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Where to meet them
Washington DC
- National Museum of American HistoryStop 10, The National Mall
- Lincoln MemorialStop 17, The National Mall
- Martin Luther King Jr. MemorialStop 19, The National Mall
- Abraham LincolnDestination Book
- Oak Hill CemeteryDestination Book
- National Portrait GalleryDestination Book
Keystone, South Dakota
- Grand View TerraceStop 2, Mount Rushmore
- Sculptor's StudioStop 7, Mount Rushmore
Cambridge, Massachusetts
- John Harvard StatueStop 4, Harvard, the Yard and around it
New York
- Alma MaterStop 2, Columbia, the Morningside campus
- National Museum of the American Indian and Bowling GreenStop 9, New York, Lower Manhattan origins to the harbor
- Daily News BuildingDestination Book
Providence
- John Hay LibraryStop 7, Brown, through the Van Wickle Gates
Philadelphia
- LOVE ParkStop 16, Philadelphia, Independence Hall to the Art Museum
Yosemite
- Yosemite Exploration CenterStop 1, Yosemite Valley
- Yosemite CemeteryStop 4, Yosemite Valley
Boston
- Harvard Yard, CambridgeDestination Book