Lincoln Museum In Gettysburg Opens On 200th Birthday Of Former U.S. President

David Wills House in Gettysburg is being transformed into the Lincoln Museum and is set to open 200 years after its namesake, Abraham Lincoln, was born. That date is Feb. 12, 2009.

The project has cost $7.2 million and took an old run down house then reconstructed it from the ground up to be the Lincoln Museum. Lincoln slept in the house the night before giving his now famous Gettysburg Address. The David Wills house was built originally in 1818. The recent restoration project put it back in the condition that it was in in 1863. The museum will also house many of the original furnishings of the house. It is now owned by the National Park Service.