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Little Pigeon Creek Community
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 in Spencer County, Indiana along Little Pigeon Creek. The community, near present-day Lincoln City, Indiana, was established on frontier land by 1816. There were enough settlers in the Indiana wilderness to enable Indiana to become a state in December, 1816.
In 1820 there were 40 or more families, including Abraham Lincoln's family, that lived in the community. Living within 1100 feet of the Lincolns were Dennis and Elizabeth Hanks and the Casebier and the Barrett families. Most of the families, like the Lincolns, Carters and Gordons, had moved there from Hardin County, Kentucky.
Although there was also a number of families nearby, it was a "scattered rural settlement" rather than a village. Among the farms were a church, general store and post office, schools, and Noah Gordon's mill, which ground corn. The mill was operated by horse-power. James Gentry, namesake for nearby Gentryville, operated a 1000-acre farm and store. Abraham was a clerk at the store and ferried goods to New Orleans for Gentry. An east–west dirt road to Troy on the Ohio River traversed the community. The roadbed crosses the Lincoln State Park and parts of the road are part of the park's trail system.
The Little Pigeon Primitive Baptist Church, a Regular Baptist congregation, was established June 8, 1816 with 15 charter members. Thomas Lincoln, Abraham's father, helped build the cabin for the church in 1819, located south of present-day Lincoln City, Indiana, in the center of the community near a spring. The land was donated by Samuel Howell. The log meetinghouse, completed in 1822, had split log benches for its congregation. Attending church was a social event where the settlers could discuss family life events, farming, the weather, land titles, and other current events. The church building was also used as a school. A second church building was erected in 1879. The current church building, which has continued to conduct services, was erected in 1948. The church's cemetery, dating back to 1825, is the gravesite of the community's settlers, including Abraham's sister, Sarah Lincoln Grigsby.
After the church was built, school was conducted there during the winter. Teachers were paid in meat, produce and animal skins. Schools in the community included the one-room Andrew Crawford School, which was still standing in 1865, as well as Swaney or Sweeney School and the Dorsey School.
Settlers cleared the forests of hickory and oak trees for farming. Within a few years the settlement was mostly farmland.
The game in what Abraham Lincoln called the "unbroken forest" and "wild region" included bears, wolves, squirrels, partridges, hawks, wild cats, turkey, sparrows, and crows. Lincoln said in a poem:
— Abraham Lincoln
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Little Pigeon Creek Community
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 in Spencer County, Indiana along Little Pigeon Creek. The community, near present-day Lincoln City, Indiana, was established on frontier land by 1816. There were enough settlers in the Indiana wilderness to enable Indiana to become a state in December, 1816.
In 1820 there were 40 or more families, including Abraham Lincoln's family, that lived in the community. Living within 1100 feet of the Lincolns were Dennis and Elizabeth Hanks and the Casebier and the Barrett families. Most of the families, like the Lincolns, Carters and Gordons, had moved there from Hardin County, Kentucky.
Although there was also a number of families nearby, it was a "scattered rural settlement" rather than a village. Among the farms were a church, general store and post office, schools, and Noah Gordon's mill, which ground corn. The mill was operated by horse-power. James Gentry, namesake for nearby Gentryville, operated a 1000-acre farm and store. Abraham was a clerk at the store and ferried goods to New Orleans for Gentry. An east–west dirt road to Troy on the Ohio River traversed the community. The roadbed crosses the Lincoln State Park and parts of the road are part of the park's trail system.
The Little Pigeon Primitive Baptist Church, a Regular Baptist congregation, was established June 8, 1816 with 15 charter members. Thomas Lincoln, Abraham's father, helped build the cabin for the church in 1819, located south of present-day Lincoln City, Indiana, in the center of the community near a spring. The land was donated by Samuel Howell. The log meetinghouse, completed in 1822, had split log benches for its congregation. Attending church was a social event where the settlers could discuss family life events, farming, the weather, land titles, and other current events. The church building was also used as a school. A second church building was erected in 1879. The current church building, which has continued to conduct services, was erected in 1948. The church's cemetery, dating back to 1825, is the gravesite of the community's settlers, including Abraham's sister, Sarah Lincoln Grigsby.
After the church was built, school was conducted there during the winter. Teachers were paid in meat, produce and animal skins. Schools in the community included the one-room Andrew Crawford School, which was still standing in 1865, as well as Swaney or Sweeney School and the Dorsey School.
Settlers cleared the forests of hickory and oak trees for farming. Within a few years the settlement was mostly farmland.
The game in what Abraham Lincoln called the "unbroken forest" and "wild region" included bears, wolves, squirrels, partridges, hawks, wild cats, turkey, sparrows, and crows. Lincoln said in a poem:
— Abraham Lincoln