Carl Sandburg Birthplace
County: Knox
Location: Sandburg Home, Galesburg
Erected: 01/01/1972 Erected by:
The Illinois State Historical Society
Carl Sandburg, poet and historian, was born in this modest three-room
cottage on January 6, 1878. He was the son of a Swedish immigrant
railroad worker. Carl attended Lombard college in Galesburg, and his
first poetry was published in this town. He later became a journalist
and prolific author. His Complete Poems and a biography, Abraham
Lincoln: The War years, won Pulitzer prizes. He also wrote a novel,
an autobiography, children's stories, and folksongs. After his death
in 1967, his ashes were buried beneath Remembrance Rock behind his
birthplace.
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