Land of Lincoln Awaits --- to be found all around you
I always recommend the museum to anyone who hasn't been there, and have found everyone I have gone with has enjoyed it. My sister in law did not; she got ill during her visit and of course, she had a less than enjoyable experience. Her illness not related to anything at the museum. It does remind me of a Lincoln story. During Lincoln's presidency he went to the War Department to read the telegrams from the widespread encampments and battlefields filed chronologically. He would read back until he found the telegrams from his last visit and announce he was down to the raisins. There is an accompanying story with Lincoln's down to the raisins expression, but I will let you research it on your own. A link to allow you to feel like a researcher.
The Old State Capitol is where Lincoln gave his famous "House Divided" speech.
The Abraham Lincoln Museum is located in Downtown Springfield. Other sites within walking distance are the Old State Capitol and the Law Office of Lincoln and Herndon. Lincoln's Home and the train station where Lincoln bade his neighbors farewell, as he left for his inauguration, are also in the Downtown district. The train station just west of the Abraham Lincoln Museum is not the station Lincoln departed for Washington from, but it is a nice park like area. My wife used to have many meetings in Springfield when we were first married. On occasion she would persuade me to drive her; leaving me free to mill around. I remember going into Lincoln and Herndon's on a slow week day no one was around. A feeling of following behind Lincoln in the place he spent a great amount of time captured me, as if he had just left. Everyone finds Lincoln in their own way.
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