Artifact Road Trip - Indiana

This carving was sent to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 by the maker, Henry Weber of Oakville, Indiana. The white oak tree, from which the wood for the piece was taken, stood beside the trail leading from Abraham Lincoln’s cabin to the cemetery - and near the grave - of Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, in Spencer County, Indiana. When the tree died in 1933, it was estimated to be 350 years old. The stump was shipped to Weber by his son, Horace S. Weber, a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).

Find out more about this #ArtifactRoadTrip carving on our Digital Artifact Collection: https://fdr.artifacts.archives.gov/objects/627

Follow along each week as we feature a different artifact in our Museum Collection from each of the United States.