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Abraham Lincoln Museum

A HUGE NEW LINCOLN MUSEUM DIVIDES HIS HOMETOWN

NEARLY HALF A CENTURY AGO Illinois schoolchildren donated pennies—$45,000 worth in all—to help purchase a handwritten copy of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address for the state’s official history collection in Springfield. At last Lincoln’s towering call for “a new birth of freedom” would be on view in his old hometown.  

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