Meeting Lincoln’s Witness Houses

Interact with History

For more than two centuries, these homes have stood through war and peace, prosperity and hardship, changing owners and changing times. Their stories include courage and contradiction, public service and private lives, freedom and enslavement. Because generations of owners chose to care for them, these buildings still have those stories to tell.

They are not monuments to perfect people. They are places where real people have lived—and still live—their lives, one day at a time, where history has unfolded in ways both ordinary and extraordinary.