The Experience

Weldon Petz Abraham Lincoln Exhibit

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