GDG- "Here I have lived..."

[Dennis Lawrence]

Tuesday, January 16, 1844.
Springfield, IL
	

Lincoln and Rev. Charles Dresser make contract for transfer to Lincoln of 
property now known as "Lincoln Home." The only home Lincoln ever owned. 
Lincoln agrees to pay Dresser $1200 in cash and to convey lot in business 
section which he and S. T. Logan acquired two years earlier.

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For seventeen years, the house at Eighth and Jackson Streets in 
Springfield, Illinois was home to Abraham Lincoln and his family. Purchased 
shortly after the birth of their first son Robert, the home sheltered the 
family through the birth of their remaining three sons and the death of 
their son Eddie, and had been the center of Lincoln's life as a husband and 
father. Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the 16th President of the United 
States on November 6, 1860. The family had three short months to prepare 
for their move to Washington, D.C. As they made the many decisions related 
to such a significant move, they had to decide if the home would be a part 
of their future, as well as their past. The home was rented rather than 
sold and their best furniture placed in storage for their eventual return. 
But on April 15, 1865, an assassin's bullet took the life of President 
Lincoln. Mary Lincoln faced a lonely future and wrote that she "could not 
bear to return to the scenes of the happiest times in my life without my 
family." The Lincoln Home remained rental property until Lincoln's son, 
Robert, donated the home to the State of Illinois in 1887 to be protected 
and preserved for future generations. In 1972 the home was conveyed to the 
United States of America, which through the National Park Service continued 
the State's work in preservation and restoration of the home, along with 
acquisition and restoration of the surrounding four-block neighborhood. 
This photographic essay captures images of Lincoln's house, showing that 
his home, like his legacy, has survived the years well.

http://www.nps.gov/archive/liho/25/25.htm

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January 16,  1861 : The Crittenden Compromise, the last chance to keep 
North and South together, dies in the U.S. Senate. 
http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=2073