Lincoln City, Indiana

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Lincoln City
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subdivision_name1 = Indiana
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Spencer
subdivision_type3 = Township
subdivision_name3 = Carter
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latd = 38
latm = 07
lats = 16
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longd = 86
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postal_code = 47552
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blank_info = 18-43884GR|2
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Lincoln City is a settlement in Carter Township, Spencer County in southwestern Indiana, located five minutes south of I-64, northeast of Evansville, and approximately twenty miles north of the Ohio River. It was laid out in 1872 on the site of Thomas Lincoln's farm. Nearby is the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial, as well as the site of the Lincoln log cabin, built in 1816. Abraham Lincoln spent much of his childhood (from the ages of 7 to 21) on this farm, and as a young man he practiced law at the nearby Spencer County courthouse. Also located in Lincoln City is the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, a national park managed by the National Park Service that includes a Living Historical Farm that attempts to recreate the early nineteenth-century period during which the Lincoln family lived in the area. The living-history farm is a working pioneer-style homestead with a cabin, outbuildings, split rail fences, animals, gardens, and field crops. NPS interpreters in period clothing perform a variety of activities typical of the 1820s, and the farm's grounds are open year-round. The farm is staffed from mid-April through September full time, and intermittently in October. The Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial is located on Highway 162 across from Lincoln State Park.

Heritage Hills High School is located in Lincoln City. It is one of two high schools in Spencer County.

Notable Residents

* Jay Cutler - Denver Broncos quarterback

References

External links

* [http://www.nps.gov/libo] Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial