Land once owned by Lincoln sold

AP is reporting that four acres of land once owned by Abraham Lincoln has been sold to the newly-formed group Abraham Lincoln Historical Farm. Lincoln purchased the land from his father, and his step-mother, Sarah Bush Lincoln, with whom the 16th president was probably closer to than his father--lived on the land until her death in 1869.

The property is near the Lincoln Log Cabin State Historical Site in Lerna, Illinois--near Charleston. The cabin is a reproduction of the original cabin where Lincoln's father and stepmother resided.

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