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Camron built the saw and grist mill on the Sangamon River in 1829, they decided to establish a town to support the local farming community. </p> </div> </div> <div class="item"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170214093727im_/http://lincolnsnewsalem.org/wp-content/themes/salem/timthumb.php?src=http://lincolnsnewsalem.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/2_Lincolns_Arrival-e1451927855204.jpg&w=1170&h=352&zc=1" alt=""> <div class="carousel-caption"> <h3>Lincoln's arrival 1831 </h3> <p>Lincoln described himself as "a piece of driftwood" when he first arrived at New Salem as a hand working on Denton Offutt's flatboat.</p> </div> </div> <div class="item"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170214093727im_/http://lincolnsnewsalem.org/wp-content/themes/salem/timthumb.php?src=http://lincolnsnewsalem.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/3_Lincolns_Departure-e1451927621548.jpg&w=1170&h=352&zc=1" alt=""> <div class="carousel-caption"> <h3>Lincoln's Departure 1837 </h3> <p>Lincoln left New Salem to practice law in Springfield. While at New Salem he had worked as a storekeeper, postmaster, surveyor, and been elected to the state legislature in addition to serving in the Black Hawk War.</p> </div> </div> <div class="item"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170214093727im_/http://lincolnsnewsalem.org/wp-content/themes/salem/timthumb.php?src=http://lincolnsnewsalem.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/4_A_Village_Disappears.jpg&w=1170&h=352&zc=1" alt=""> <div class="carousel-caption"> <h3>A Village Disappears 1840 </h3> <p>The village which had been growing rapidly when Lincoln arrived fades away as other towns around it grow. People will later say that New Salem existed only to help Lincoln become the man the country needed.</p> </div> </div> <div class="item"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170214093727im_/http://lincolnsnewsalem.org/wp-content/themes/salem/timthumb.php?src=http://lincolnsnewsalem.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/5_Turn_of_Centrury-e1451927679355.jpg&w=1170&h=352&zc=1" alt=""> <div class="carousel-caption"> <h3>Turn of Century Revival 1904 to 1919 </h3> <p>In 1906 wealthy newspaperman William Randolph Hearst purchased 60 acres including the tract where New Salem had once stood. In 1906 Hearst deeded the land to the Old Salem Chautauqua Association and rebuilding efforts began. The land was deeded to the State of Illinois to be used as a state park on May 22, 1919</p> </div> </div> <div class="item"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170214093727im_/http://lincolnsnewsalem.org/wp-content/themes/salem/timthumb.php?src=http://lincolnsnewsalem.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/6_Reconstruction-e1451927986654.jpg&w=1170&h=352&zc=1" alt=""> <div class="carousel-caption"> <h3>Reconstruction 1931 </h3> <p>Gov Louis Emmerson and Gov Henry Horner begin reconstruction 1930s - In 1931, the General Assembly appropriated $50,000 for the park. Rebuilding began under Gov Emmerson who renamed the site "New Salem State Park." </p> </div> </div> <div class="item"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170214093727im_/http://lincolnsnewsalem.org/wp-content/themes/salem/timthumb.php?src=http://lincolnsnewsalem.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/7_Civilian_Conservation_Core-e1451927770287.jpg&w=1170&h=352&zc=1" alt=""> <div class="carousel-caption"> <h3>The Civilian Conservation Corps 1934聽 </h3> <p>During the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps worked on reconstructing the Village聽on the original site.</p> </div> </div> <div class="item"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170214093727im_/http://lincolnsnewsalem.org/wp-content/themes/salem/timthumb.php?src=http://lincolnsnewsalem.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/8_Today-1.jpg&w=1170&h=352&zc=1" alt=""> <div class="carousel-caption"> <h3>Today </h3> <p>Today the New Salem Village continues to provide visitors a unique view of life in the 1830's which shaped Lincoln's development as a young man.</p> </div> </div> </div>  <div class="carousel-control-wrap"> <div class="container"> <a class="left carousel-control" href="#timeline-slider" role="button" data-slide="prev"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170214093727im_/http://lincolnsnewsalem.org/wp-content/themes/salem/images/icon-prev.png" height="36" width="36"></a> <a class="right carousel-control" href="#timeline-slider" role="button" data-slide="next"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170214093727im_/http://lincolnsnewsalem.org/wp-content/themes/salem/images/icon-next.png" height="36" width="36"></a> </div> </div>  <ul class="thumbnails-carousel clearfix text-center"> <li></li> <li>1829</li> <li>1831</li> <li>1837</li> <li>1840</li> <li>1904 to 1919</li> <li>1931</li> <li>1934</li> <li>Today</li> </ul> </div> </div> </section>  <section class="content-area content-box-top"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-5 col-sm-5 col-xs-12"> <div class="pageTitle-wrap divider1"> <h1 class="pageTitle"><span>Learn about</span> LINCOLN鈥橲 NEW SALEM</h1> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-7 col-sm-7 col-xs-12 entry"> <p><p>New Salem existed for only a very short time. By the time Lincoln was elected president, it only lived in memory. But, like Lincoln, New Salem became something of a legend. In the 1930s the village was reconstructed to show visitors what life was like in the 1830s.</p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </section>  <section class="content-area texture-box"> <div class="carl-top clearfix"></div> <div class="texture black clearfix"> <div class="container"> <div class="box-texture-wrap clearfix"> <div class="box-texture clearfix"> <div class="tab-wrap"> <div class="left-col">  <ul class="nav-tabs nav-stacked hidden-xs" role="tablist"> <li class="active"> <a href="#new-salem-1" aria-controls="#new-salem-1" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">White House</a> </li> <li> <a href="#new-salem-2" aria-controls="#new-salem-2" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">Lincoln's New Salem</a> </li> <li> <a href="#new-salem-3" aria-controls="#new-salem-3" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">OPPORTUNITIES</a> </li> <li> <a href="#new-salem-4" aria-controls="#new-salem-4" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">STORE CLERK</a> </li> <li> <a href="#new-salem-5" aria-controls="#new-salem-5" role="tab" 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<p>New Salem had been established less than five years when Lincoln arrived; it was young and growing community.聽 Although he was not married and did not own a聽home here, Lincoln had the chance to try his hand聽at a variety of jobs while he lived at New Salem.</p> </div> <a href="#new-salem-4" aria-controls="new-salem-4" role="tab" data-toggle="tab" class="mob-tab-nav visible-xs active">STORE CLERK</a> <div class="tab-pane fade in" id="new-salem-4"> <div class="subTitle-wrap"> <h2 class="subTitle">STORE CLERK</h2> <p></p> </div> <p>Denton Offutt, impressed by Lincoln’s work ethic when he hired him as a hand on a flatboat taking goods from Illinois to New Orleans, brought Lincoln to New Salem when he hired the young man to clerk at his store.聽聽An ambition young man, Lincoln enthusiastically聽applied himself to trying and learning new things.</p> </div> <a href="#new-salem-5" aria-controls="new-salem-5" role="tab" data-toggle="tab" class="mob-tab-nav visible-xs active">MILITIA CAPTAIN</a> 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