We arrived on 10/08/2008 at Sugar Creek Campground in Crawfordsville, IN. On 10/11/2008 we drove to Little Flock Cemetery in Shelburn, IN where Pam’s Paternal Grandparents and Aunt Mary are buried. During the trip we also visited DePauw University in Greencastle, IN where Pam’s father went to college and Indiana State University in Terre Haute, IN where Pam went to college.
On 10/15/2008 we drove to Thousand Trails Indian Lakes Resort near Batesville, IN. We visited IN Capitol in Indianapolis, IN on 10/19/2008. Indiana became a state on December 11, 1816; Corydon remained the seat of government. The original State House, a 40-foot-square building, was made of Indiana limestone and still stands. As more roads were built and settlement moved northward, a centrally located seat of government was needed. In January 1821 a site was selected and the city of Indianapolis was founded. While the State House location has remained fixed since 1835, the original building no longer stands. The State House in use today replaced it in 1888. One hundred years later, in 1988, the State House was extensively renovated. The picture is of the IN Capitol’s east side.
On 10/22/2008, we move to Homestead / Yarwood Mobile Home Park in Radcliff, KY. Then on 10/25/2008 we visited Lincoln’s Birthplace near Hodgenville, KY and also visited Lincoln’s KY Boyhood farm (Knob Creek Farm). 116 acres of Thomas Lincoln’s Sinking Spring Farm. An early 19th century Kentucky cabin symbolizes the one in which Abraham was born. The cabin is enshrined inside the Memorial Building at the site of his birth. The Unit also includes the Sinking Spring, site of the Boundary Oak tree and other reminders of the Nation’s 16th President’s beginnings. The picture is of the symbolic log cabin.
The Lincoln family lived on 30 acres of the 228-acre Knob Creek Farm from the time Abraham was two and a half until he was almost eight years old. Here he learned to talk and soon grew big enough to run errands such as carrying water and gathering wood for the fires. Abraham recalled in later years numerous memories of his childhood here, i.e. a stone house he had passed while taking corn to Hodgen’s Mill. The picture is of the reconstructed boyhood’s log cabin.
Then on 10/26/2008, we visited KY Capitol and Old KY Capitol both in Frankfort, KY. Frank Mills Andrews was selected to design the new Capitol, the current Capitol. His planned structure proved far too immense to fit on the old square, so the present site in south Frankfort was chosen instead. Ground was broken in 1905, and the building was dedicated in 1910. The total cost of the completed building and furnishings was $1,820,000 — a modest price even in 1910. The picture is of the KY Capitol’s north side.
