Existing comment:
Spencer County
Organized in 1818
Named for Spier Spencer
Abraham Lincoln spent the formative years of his youth, age 7 through 21, in Spencer County. Referring to the rolling hills and shady forest of what is now Lincoln State Park, the great emancipator reminisced, "Here I grew up." Memorials in the county include the Lincoln cabin site and the grave of Abraham Lincoln's mother, Nancy. |