Little Pigeon Creek Community, also known as Little Pigeon Creek Settlement and Little Pigeon River settlement, was a settlement in present Carter and Clay Townships in Spencer County, Indiana along L
Lincoln Indiana Boyhood Home, Baptist Church, and memorial within what was the Little Pigeon Creek Community
Little Pigeon Baptist Church
Replica of Lincoln's Boyhood Home in Little Pigeon Creek Community.
Colonel William Jones, American Civil War (1803–1864)
Abraham Lincoln
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Little Pigeon Creek Community
…were enough settlers in the Indiana wilderness to enable Indiana to become a state in December, 1816. In 1820 there were 40 or more families, including Abraham Lincoln's family, that lived in the community. Living within 1100 feet of the Lincolns were Dennis and Elizabeth Hanks and the Casebier and the Barrett families…
Lincoln in 1863
Mary Todd Lincoln with Willie and Tad
A daguerreotype of Lincoln, taken around 1847, the earliest known photograph of him
Lincoln in 1858, the year of his debates with Stephen Douglas over slavery