Abraham Lincoln spent his formative years on this farm from age 7 to age 21. He cut down many trees to clear land for crops, helped plant the crops, helped his father build their cabin, worked as a clerk for a local storeowner at times, hired out to neighbors as a day laborer, took his first boat trip with goods for market to New Orleans, and read as many books as he could obtain. He suffered tragedy here, when he lost his mother to milk sickness and, later, his sister in childbirth.
