Abraham Lincoln
Marking Old Lower Landing where in 1828 – age 19 – Abraham Lincoln with Allen Gentry made his first flatboat trip to New Orleans. He saw slaves sold and said. “If I ever get a chance to hit that thing, I’ll hit it hard”.
In a very real sense of the word it might be said that the Emancipation Proclamation which Lincoln issued in 1863 owes it’s origin to this flatboat trip.
Marker is at the intersection of South 1st Street and Clark Street, on the left when traveling south on South 1st Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
