Historical evidence suggests he moved there somewhere around 1831
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Lincoln lived at New Salem and at Springfield. The village at New Salem has been restored to look as it did when Lincoln lived there and his house in Springfield is open to visitors. The is also a new Lincoln museum in Springfield.
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Lincoln won California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin.
Abraham Lincoln was a colonists of sorts. During the creation of the Emancipation Proclamation Lincoln pioneered the idea to help the freed slaves to establish new colonies in new territories out West.