Abraham Lincoln — a happy birthday. On Feb. 12, 1809, in the backwoods of Kentucky near present-day Hodgenville, our 16th ...
SPRINGFIELD, ILL. - President Barack Obama on Thursday used the 200th birthday celebration of Abraham Lincoln's hometown to launch a spirited defense of activist government - implicitly tying it to ...
Springfield Honored with Train Town USA Designation as part of the Festivities Lincoln founded Union Pacific with the signing of the historic Pacific Railway Act on July 1, 1862, which authorized ...