Before the group of 48 men of the Ohio Company could establish Marietta in 1788, they first had to get here. The trip ...

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to ...

In New Salem, Lincoln encountered the religious and the atheist, the learned and the illiterate. It's where he ran a store ...

Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist mill along the Sangamon River aboard a flatboat that was sinking. Lincoln had ...

The wreck of a flatboat on the Mississippi River in 1825 resulted in one of the most remembered Tennessee frontiersmen, David Crockett, becoming good friends with one of the most forgotten ...

After spending weeks traveling and selling their oxen in Pittsburgh, they take a flatboat down the Ohio River. Finally, after 78 days, they arrive in New Bolton, where they are welcomed by new ...

Here, she said, villagers got their first glimpse of a young Abraham Lincoln, whose flatboat became stuck on the dam of the grist mill's pond. They also witnessed Lincoln's ingenuity in righting ...