Lincoln's Washington - 6/7 - President Lincoln's Cottage

Stop six on the tour is President Lincoln's Cottage, located on the United States Soldiers and Airmens Home about twenty minutes north of the White House. Lincoln and his family spent their summers here the cottage in order to removed themselves from the heat of the city. With its rolling hills and pastoral, parklike setting, the cottage and surrounding grounds offered the President a retreat from the pressures of his job and the ongoing Civil War.

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