The First Berry-Lincoln Store - New Salem, Illinois Youth T-Shirt

The first Berry-Lincoln Store opened by Abraham Lincoln and William Berry in New Salem, Illinois.

Located next to the store within a fence to protect it is a very rare and fragile Wildgoose Plum Tree (prunus munsoniana). It was most likely planted during the 1930's recreation of the village and was named a US National Champion tree in 1989. The tree was damaged in a tornado and nearly destroyed but after ten years of loving care came back. It now has an offspring next to it.

Twenty-one-year-old Abraham Lincoln moved with his extended family to Macon County, Illinois, in March 1830, helping his father establish a farm. That following spring, in 1831, he set out on his own, moving to New Salem, Illinois.

The village, known today as Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site, is a reconstructed frontier village that would have been lost to history if not for Abraham Lincoln.

New Salem, founded in 1829 near a mill on the Sangamon River, had a population of aroun...

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