[Illustration: Doctor John Allen lived across the road from the Hill-McNeal store. Unconvinced of the virtue of quinine for treating malaria fever, the doctor kept to such old remedies as Peruvian bark, jalop, calomel and boneset tea.] [Illustration: Peter Lukin, the cobbler, lived next door to Doctor Allen. The cobbler shop was in the small lean-to. As winter approached the cobbler converted piles of animal hides into shoes for the community.] [Illustration: Residence and office of Doctor Francis Regnier, Allen’s capable colleague, who purged, bled, blistered, puked, and salivated his patients.] [Illustration: The Doctor’s medical laboratory and reference library.] [Illustration: This was the home and workshop of Martin Waddell, the village hatter. He made hats from opossum, raccoon and rabbit skins. A rabbitskin hat cost fifty cents. A hat made from an opossum or raccoon skin, with the tail hanging down in the back, cost two dollars.] [Illustration: In this kettle Waddell prepared the skins from which he made the hats.] [Illustration: Residence of Isaac Burner. Very little is known about the Burner family.] [Illustration: A familiar sight on Main Street, New Salem.] [Illustration: In the small lean-to in the rear of his cabin, Robert Johnson, the wheelwright and cabinetmaker, painstakingly made spinning wheels, wagon wheels, looms, and sturdy furniture for the community.] [Illustration: Residence of Isaac Golliher, who had the only root cellar in the village.] [Illustration: For three years Lincoln was postmaster at New Salem. In this position he became well-acquainted with people for miles around. It was here he began his lifelong habit of reading newspapers, through which, in part, he learned to interpret public opinion. To supplement his earnings as postmaster he did odd jobs, such as clerking in Hill’s store, helping out at the mill or splitting rails.] [Illustration: This was the home of Alexander Trent. When Lincoln became postmaster he was required to furnish bond of five hundred dollars. Alexander Trent was one of his bondsmen.] [Illustration: Henry Onstat’s cabin and the cooperage where he made barrels so much in demand by the community of New Salem.] [Illustration: The cooperage was a busy place. There was always a great pile of shavings in the fireplace. Lincoln often came to the cooperage at night and by the glow of the burning shavings he studied mathematics, literature and law.] [Illustration: Across the road from the cooperage stood the double cabin of Jack Kelso, philosopher and fisherman, and his brother-in-law, Joshua Miller, the powerful village blacksmith.]