1. It took more than 50 years to get a memorial for Abraham Lincoln built and opened to the public. Efforts to create a fitting tribute to Abraham Lincoln began immediately after the leader’s ...

Wyoming’s memorial to America’s 16th president is impossible to miss. Abraham Lincoln’s 13-and-a-half-foot tall, two-plus-ton bronze head sits on a 30-foot-high granite pedestal, surveying ...

While thousands of tourists continue to visit the marble Abraham Lincoln statue sitting at the 16th president’s memorial in D.C., construction crews below his feet are working hard to build a ...

Mike Litterst stood in the cavernous space under the Lincoln Memorial and pointed out that 40 feet up you could see concrete beams that support the 175-ton marble sculpture of Abraham Lincoln.