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The Lincoln Trail: From Kentucky to Illinois

The Lincoln Trail: From Kentucky to Illinois

There are Lincoln sites in Kentucky, his birthplace, Indiana, where he lived from 1816 to 1830, and Illinois, where he married and lived until leaving for Washington in 1861. There are 1000s of books about this amazing man, of course, but the NPS offers a nice summary timeline of his life. Kentucky In 2019, I stopped in Elizabethtown, Kentucky on the way to Savannah to see my old friend Jodie. During that visit, I went to Mammoth Cave. I stopped again…

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Mammoth Cave National Park

Mammoth Cave National Park

I had a 13+ hour drive to Savannah. I could probably have driven straight through but looked at various options for stops en route. I have an old friend from the Army living in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. I arranged dates and times with her for Saturday night then realized how close she was to Mammoth Cave. I was here as a kid with my family but literally decades ago and I wanted to visit again. I had planned on stopping for…

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