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Lincoln Farm Plans 75th Anniversary Celebration
LERNA, Ill. (AP) -- The group that helps pay for the state historic site in eastern Illinois where Abraham Lincoln's father once farmed hopes to have a 75th anniversary celebration this summer.

Lori Henderson is president of the Lincoln-Sargent Farm Foundation. She tells the Mattoon Journal-Gazette that the Aug. 27 celebration would highlight the work of people who helped establish and build the Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site in 1936. That would include members of the Civilian Conservation Corps who worked on the site.

The state historic site is in Lerna. That's about 50 miles south of Champaign.

Lincoln's father, Thomas, and his stepmother, Sarah Bush Lincoln, lived and farmed at the site starting in 1840.

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03 28 11 by Newsroom
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