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Hildene, The Lincoln Family Home
- Item Number
- 109
- Estimated Value
- 64 USD
- Sold
- 32 USD to grnmtn54
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
Use these (6) guest passes to the Hildene House and Grounds. Robert Todd Lincoln built Hildene as a summer home at the turn of the 20th century. He was the only child of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln to survive to maturity. Robert first visited Manchester as a young man in the summers of 1863 and 1864 when he came to the Equinox Hotel with his mother and his brother Tad. He was so taken by the beauty of Vermont that some forty years later he returned to purchase 500 acres of land to build what he would call his ancestral home. Open year round, the non-profit Friends of Hildene raised the money to purchase the estate in 1978 and began the long process of restoring the home and gardens. Hildene's walking trails with interpretive signs give visitors a chance to see the wooded areas of the property and provide a link to the beginnings of a working farm on the 10-acre meadow. Take a tour of the gardens, mansion (where the Lincoln family lived for 70 years), the farm (complete with Nubian goats and cheese making facility). You will want to see Hildene's newest addition-a meticulously restored 1903 Pullman car..the Sunbeam. It is the finest wooden Pullman car on public display. During the winter, trails become pathways for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. Twenty-one groomed and marked trails wind through woods and meadows over 14 kilometers.
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Hildene
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