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Eastern Great Lakes: Indiana, Michigan, Ohio

A replica of the Indiana farm cabin where Abraham Lincoln lived from age seven to twenty-one. Today, the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial is open to the public and administered by the National Park Service. The foundation of the actual cabin is still visible, and a monument to Lincoln, made from Indiana limestone, stands nearby.

of this migration. They moved from Kentucky with their children, Sarah and Abraham. The future president lived in Indiana from the ages of 7 to 21. Indiana’s population more than doubled from 1820 to 1830. It dou- bled again from 1830 to 1840. Throughout settlement, whites clashed with Native Americans. The Battle of Tippecanoe, fought where the Wabash and Tippecanoe rivers meet, marked the beginning of the Indians’ removal from the land named after them. In only a few hours, future-president General William

Following the American Revolution, Indiana joined the United States as part of the Northwest Territory. A decade later, the Northwest Territory split into the Ohio Territory and the Indiana Territory. Present-day Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, and parts of Michigan and Minnesota made up the Indiana Territory. In the early nineteenth century, farmers moved to Indiana from the South. Many Scotch-Irish and Germans also arrived. Settlers estab- lished farms along the waterways. Thomas and Nancy Lincoln were part