Opened in 2002, the Abraham Lincoln Exhibit at the Plymouth Historical Museum is a result of the lifetime collection amassed by Dr. Weldon Petz. Classes and tours are available by trained Museum guides and teachers.
Highlights within the exhibit:
- Artifacts from Lincoln’s youth
- Rare book belonging to Lincoln as a boy
- Rare family genealogy and photographs
- Handwritten legal documents and law books
- Life mask of Lincoln made in 1860
- Civil War art
- Lock of Lincoln’s hair
- Artifacts from the Lincoln assassination
- Lincoln & Hamlin presidential campaign banner that hung on the Starkweather home in Plymouth in 1860
- Lincoln archives containing more than 1,200 books, photographs, and clip files
