Sargent Farm - Lena, Illinois

This farmstead is also on the Lincoln Log Cabin Historic Site. The Sargent farm is worth the tour.

In 1840, the same year that Thomas Lincoln bought the Goosenest Prairie farm, Stephen Sargent sold his dry goods store in nearby New Richmond and purchased a farm about ten miles east of the Lincolns. Three years later Sargent, with his wife Nancy Chenoweth Harlan, began constructing a spacious timberframe house. Sargent, by all appearances, enjoyed considerable success as a farmer. By 1850, he had accrued 400 acres of land and more than 600 head of livestock. A progressive farmer, Sargent kept up with the latest agricultural innovations of the period, a marked contrast to Thomas Lincoln’s older and more traditional farming methods.

The Sargent Farm has been fully restored at Lincoln Log Cabin where you will be able to see how these more progressive people lived in 1845. Talk with the Sargents and their neighbors to experience the sites and sounds of the Sargent Farm.

Lincoln Log Cabin
State Historic Site
400 S. Lincoln Highway Road
Lerna, Illinois 62440
Phone: (217) 345-1845
Fax: (217) 345-6472