Word: springfields
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...result, though the Library of Congress in Washington is the official repository of Lincoln's papers, the library in Springfield has more items (1,600 compared to 900) written in Lincoln's own hand...
...Nearby is the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, a modern, multi-media complex that houses one of the best collections of Lincoln materials in the world. As Illinois State Historian Thomas Schwartz explained to me recently, Springfield had the good fortune to have a Lincoln buff serving as governor during the Great Depression. He budgeted for acquisitions at a time when prices were low. "We were able to collect material at a time when there was not much interest and not much money...
...There are other Lincoln sites in and around Springfield well worth seeing - the train station where he gave his moving farewell address to his friends and neighbors; the home of Ninian Edwards, where the Lincolns met and courted; the reconstructed village of New Salem, where Lincoln launched his political career. Springfield also has been commemorating the 100th anniversary of a brutal race riot that terrorized the city's black residents...
...Lincoln's tomb looms over the Oak Ridge Cemetery not far from downtown Springfield. This massive granite edifice, decorated with statues cast from melted cannons and topped by an obelisk rising 117 feet, is a testament to the enormous place Lincoln occupies in America's heart and memory. As if to remind us, though, of Lincoln's genius for understatement, his burial marker inside is starkly simple - a name and two dates...
...Lincoln appears on a wall above the marker, engraved in dark marble. "Now he belongs to the ages." Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's secretary of war, said it when his leader died at dawn on an April day in 1865. But it is never and nowhere more true than in Springfield on the day you make your visit...