| Title | the Sangamon River from New Salem hilltop; Lincoln arrived here in a canoe, took a flatboat from here to New Orleans, and twice piloted a steamboat around this bend. |
| Date | 1925 |
| Source | Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925. |
| Creator | Sandburg, Carl |
| Category | Place |
| Type | Photograph |
| Permission | Northern Illinois University |
| Themes | || Lincoln's Biography |
