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Lincoln State Park is a state park of Indiana, United States.It is located in southern Indiana in Spencer County approximately 35 miles (56 km) east of Evansville.. The park was established in 1932 and encompasses 1,747 acres (707 ha).
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Richard Lieber was instrumental in the foundation of the Indiana State Park system. The first state park in Indiana was McCormick's Creek State Park, in Owen County in 1916, followed in the same year by Turkey Run State Park in Parke County. The number of state parks rose steadily in the 1920s, mostly by donations of land from local authorities ...
The main attraction of the park is the 146-acre (59 ha) Lincoln Trail Lake, which was the third lake created in Illinois (1955-1956) using federal monies under the Dingell-Johnson Act. The lake's maximum depth is 41 feet (12 m). [4] The park offers camping, hiking, fishing and boating (outboard motors are limited to 10 horsepower (7.5 kW)).
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It contains the town of Attica, which is near the banks of the Wabash River and which has a population of about 3,200 people. U.S. Route 41, [7] Indiana State Road 28 [8] and Indiana State Road 55 [9] enter the township from Warren County, across the river to the west; at this point they all share the same route. In passing through Attica, U.S ...
An end of the Lincoln Heritage Trail at the Lincoln Trail Homestead State Memorial in Macon County Illinois.. The Lincoln Heritage Trail is a designation for a series of highways in the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky that links communities with pre-presidential period historical ties to U.S. president Abraham Lincoln.
The state memorial is believed to contain the site of the homestead, from March 1830 until March 1831, of pioneer Thomas Lincoln and about 12 members of his extended family, including grown son Abraham Lincoln. [2] The Lincolns moved to this location, west of Decatur, Illinois, from Indiana in March 1830.