Abraham Lincoln Employed
N 38° 00.014 W 086° 48.904
16S E 516236 N 4205857
Located at the entrance of Lincoln Ferry Park outside Troy, IN.
Waymark Code: WM6J8C
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 06/09/2009
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Side one:
Lincoln (1809-1865) lived northwest of here 1816-1830. Worked circa 1825 as hired hand for James Taylor. William Herndon, a Lincoln biographer, wrote that Lincoln told him it "was the roughest work a young man could be made to do." He butchered, did farm tasks, and operated Taylor's ferry across Anderson River, a key Ohio River transportation link.
Side two:
Lincoln built a rowboat and used it to carry people to waiting steamers on the Ohio River. On his first trip, he earned a dollar, which made the world seem "wider and fairer, " according to reports of later remarks by Lincoln. He took a flatboat of goods to New Orleans 1828. His work on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers helped to broaden his horizons.
County: Spencer
Year Placed: 2001
Name: Abraham Lincoln Employed
ID#: 74.2001.1
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