New Salem (Menard County, Ill.)
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found: Historical souvenir booklet ... 1934.
found: GeoNames, Oct. 15, 2014(abandoned ppl; N 39° 58' 44'' W 89° 50' 38''; also ppl named New Salem in Pike County, IL; also civil townships named New Salem in McDonough and Pike Counties.)
found: Thomas, B.P. Lincoln's New Salem, 1987:p. 6 (New Salem founded in 1829) p. 57 (Menard County set off from Sangamon in Feb. 1839; by 1840 New Salem had ceased to exist)
found: Wikipedia, Oct. 15, 2014(New Salem was recreated as a historic village in the 1930s, based on the original foundations. The first village was generally abandoned about 1840, as other towns developed) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%27s_New_Salem
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1982-04-08: new
2014-10-16: revised
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