![](homesummer.jpg) |
Summer View
Spring and summer traditionally draw many visitors to
the Lincoln home neighborhood.
On May 18, 1860, when Abraham Lincoln received the Republican presidential
nomination, well-wishers gathered outside his home. He told them
that he would invite the whole crowd into his house if it was large
enough to hold them. Just then a voice broke in, "We will give you a larger
house on the fourth of March," referring to the White House.
<Click on picture to continue.
Back to Tour Home
|