. Curios and relics. Plants. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Thatcher, Maurice H. (Maurice Hudson), 1870-1973; Sheldon, Bert; Trees. The old Corner Oak on the Lincoln Farm in Spencer County, Indiana. Lincolns for fourteen years. Thomas Lincoln built his cabin facing this tree and the old corner oak in Ken- tucky must have been brought to mind many times while looking upon this new land mark. If it were not for other trees in Spencer County more closely associated with Lincoln, this old oak would rival the corner oak in Kentucky. The beauty of the tree is much marred, however, by the undergrowth w
. Curios and relics. Plants. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Thatcher, Maurice H. (Maurice Hudson), 1870-1973; Sheldon, Bert; Trees. The old Corner Oak on the Lincoln Farm in Spencer County, Indiana. Lincolns for fourteen years. Thomas Lincoln built his cabin facing this tree and the old corner oak in Ken- tucky must have been brought to mind many times while looking upon this new land mark. If it were not for other trees in Spencer County more closely associated with Lincoln, this old oak would rival the corner oak in Kentucky. The beauty of the tree is much marred, however, by the undergrowth which surrounds it. Not far from the cabin site, and much more significant than the me- morial cedar, which once stood close by it, is a magnificent elm. If the trees were "God's first temples," they were also God's first school- houses. Under the shade of this old tree Lincoln could have been seen on many occasions, reading Aesop's Fables or working out a problem in arithmetic, on the smooth surface of which was to show possession. It stands today at the south- wood which he had prepared for the purpose. The Indiana west corner of section thirty-two, in township four, and Lincoln Union, which is sponsoring a plan to reclaim the range five, marking the piece of ground occupied by the President's Hoosier home and transform it into a state park, consider this tree one of the most historic of the living Lin- coln memorials. Mr. Frederick Law Olm- sted of Brookline, Massachu- setts, has done much prelimi- nary work in planning the re- creation of the native forest and underbrush that surrounded the Indiana home of the Lincolns. The beautiful grove, which cov- ers the hill where the Presi- dent's mother is buried, is in-. Upper—A grove on the farm at Hodgenville, Kentucky, near the site of the Lincoln Cab in. Lower—This magnificent oak, our most treasured living me- morial of Lincoln, still stands on the Rock Spring Farm at Hod- genville, where he was Please note
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