You can look up a lot of info on it, and it is a nice little pioneer type village to visit.
We were there in March, before their normal visitor season opened. There were no reinactors there while we visited, and there were just a few other visitors.
We arrived early in the morning as they opened.A very nice lady was at the visitor center/museum. We watched about a 15 minute movie on the town.
I was surprised that there was no mention of Ann Rutledge in the film! The very nice lady in the visitor center did give me specific directions to the burial site of Rutledge just a few miles out of town.
There were some great relics in the museum, including items with a very direct connection to Lincoln. The museum is small but packed. There are great interpretive signs next to each item.After seeing the museum, we walked through the reconstructed village. There are a LOT of buildings- all of which are marked, and reconstructed at the site of the original building.
There is a dig site here too, where more foundations were discovered in the 1990s. I think the village is very accurately reconstructed, but there were probably a few more buildings here and there.
We walked by a gift shop at the far end of New Salem. We were informed it was closed, but would open soon, when the park opened. I am sure their sales were suffering at the start of the season though, with the whole coronavirus thing happening.
We made our way back to the visitor center one more time before running off to nearby Petersburg. Our kind hostess showed us a rack of free promo flyers and other items. There were travel brochures, but there were also some interesting unique items, including a small book of temperance songs and there were even some FREE First Day Covers! VERY COOL!New Salem is a great place to visit, but I will probably try to stop by again some time during their warmer visiting season.
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