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Little Pigeon Creek Community
Indiana settlement, boyhood home of Abraham Lincoln / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Little Pigeon Creek Community, also known as Little Pigeon Creek Settlement and Little Pigeon River settlement, was a settlement in present Carter and Clay Townships[1]: 271–272, 412 [2] in Spencer County, Indiana along Little Pigeon Creek.[3] The community, near present-day Lincoln City, Indiana,[1][lower-alpha 1] was established on frontier land by 1816.[4] There were enough settlers in the Indiana wilderness to enable Indiana to become a state in December, 1816.[5]: 22
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