Galena is open 9am to 4pm in the summer. Lunch Mon-Friday 11:30-3:30 (baked goods and breakfast sandwiches available daily at 9am) and Breakfast and Lunch on the weekends 9am to 3:30. Galena is open 9am to 5pm in the winter.
Abraham Lincoln became the United States' 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863.n Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln's death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died.
Abraham Lincoln was a famous President from USA, who lived between February 12, 1809 and April 15, 1865. He became 56 years old. He led the country through its greatest internal crisis ever, the American Civil War preserved the Union and ended slavery. Lincoln was shot and killed in an assassination attempt when the war was over, just a month after he was re-elected president for a second term. Before Lincoln became the first Republican president, he was a lawyer, representative in the Illinois State Assembly, Congressman and twice a candidate for senator without success.